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Action has relieved us of financial and emotional burden, state coordinator says
From Olanrewaju Lawal, Birnin Kebbi
The Kebbi State Sickle Cell Association (KESCA) has commended the Kebbi State Contribution Healthcare Management Agency (KECHEMA) for giving 300 slots for the members of the association to have access to free medical treatment.
The Kebbi State Coordinator of KESCA, Hajia Khadija Yahaya Shantali, stated this while speaking with newsmen shortly after the association’s monthly members forum in Birnin Kebbi on Saturday.
She explained that, while they were grateful to the Executive Secretary of KECHEMA, they are also expecting that the sickle cell bill before the House of Assembly, which has passed the second reading, would be implemented, to solve financial and emotional burdens of their members.
“You all know that Sickle Cell patients are facing a lot of challenges such as financial, economy and emotional burdens to the parents. With these 300 slots from KECHEMA, we are very grateful. The burden of 300 of our members, financially have be relieved and satisfied,” she stated.
“It will help their parents too. Because, with these slots, if a child with sickle cell develops crisis, the parent would immediately take her or him to the hospital for treatment, not thinking about that there is no money for medical treatment. The hospital would collect the child’s card and all the bills will be passed over to the KECHEMA for settlement.
“We are very grateful to the Executive Secretary of KECHEMA, Dr Jafar Augie Muhammad for these slots,” she said.
Shantali explained that the association with about 2,882 members still need more assistance from eminent Nigerians, philanthropists, and NGOs to come to the rescue of their members, stressed that their contributions and interventions would go a long way to soothe the pains some of their members are going through in their respective homes.
Earlier, the guest speaker, Dr Sadiq Ibrahim Maianu, Haematologist at the Haematology Unit, Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Birnin Kebbi, counselled KESCA members to always seek treatment at the hospitals during their crisis and after.
He said that they should always comply with the advise prescribed for them by the Doctors at the hospitals, stressing that it would help them a lot to survive as the ‘warriors ‘ battling sickle cell anaemia.
Another speaker at the occasion, Mallam Sadiq Abubakar Koko, urged the KESCA members not to hide their crises at home but should visit the hospital and always follow instructions given to them by health workers to avoid crisis.
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