7th September, 2015
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN
As part of effort to commemorate this year’s Oranyan festival organized by the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, 14 medical experts from the State of Maryland, United States of America on Monday commenced a three-day free medical treatment for the people of Oyo town and its environs.
The co-coordinator of the 4th Oranyan festival 2015 committee, Retired Archbishop Ayo Ladigbolu who briefed newsmen on Monday in the palace on the festival said that 20 other volunteer medical experts have joined their counterparts from America to ensure that the people of the state were treated of various ailments.
Bishop Ladigbolu who disclosed that surgical operation would also be carried out during the health programme, said: “I can assure you that the mission will treat anybody that visits the centre for medical assistance. I also assure that as many as possible patients that need operation would be operated. No matter how bad your case is, it will be dealt with.”
He said that Hon. Bode Esuola and his wife, Dr. Commissioner Anu Esuola through their company, Community Dentistry on Wheels international based in Maryland ,USA, voluntarily donated a well-equipped $300,000 mobile hospital to Oyo metropolis and Oyo State as a legacy of Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III.
The co-coordinator of the festival further noted that the Esuolas who are natives of Oyo organised the medical and trade mission to Oyo State and Oyo metropolis not as part of the 2015 Oranyan festival alone, but to honour the first second term governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi and the pacesetting monarch of our time, Alaafin Adeyemi III.
Archbishop Ladigbolu stated that the theme of this year’s Oranyan festival is “Healthcare in support of culture”.
He further emphasized that the Esuola medical team had imported forty containers of medical equipment and drugs for the free medical treatment.
The leader of the team, Dr. (Mrs.) Anu Esuola told the journalists that the team is prepared to take care of about 3,000 patients.
Dr. Esuola further noted that 60 patients would get free surgery before the week runs out.
The area where the team set to carry out surgical operation included Cleft lip, cleft palate, ameloblastomas, hernia, lumps, thyroid gland enlargement, uterine fibroid and ovarian cysts.