Femi Onireti intensifies medicare project with payment of patients' bills at BUTH

Femi Onireti intensifies medicare project with payment of patients’ bills at BUTH

Yinka ADETUNJI

Olufemi Onireti a philanthropist and politician recently brought reliefs to scores of people receiving treatment at the Bowen University Teaching Hospital BUTH Ogbomoso Oyo state as he identified with their plight and assisted in paying their outstanding medical bills.

“Hon Femi Onireti helped us to clear an outstanding balance of ₦475, 500 and another ₦10, 000, it is a great relief,” one of the beneficiaries said.

Another beneficiary said, ”I have no one, but God raised Onireti for me. He paid the outstanding bill for our bed space.”

Mrs. Bosede Akande, a widow, informed the chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP helped paid her child’s medical bill and a promise to provide artificial leg to the boy.

This is as Abdulateef Kafilat Ajoke whose child had a surgery repeated after two months expressed appreciation.

“A few weeks ago, we visited Bowen Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, to help settle the bills of some patients in critical condition who were in need of financial support,” Onireti stated in a Facebook post.

The House of Representatives’ aspirant for Ogbomoso North/South/Oriire federal constituency described the experience as emotional. “It was a truly emotional experience for me, seeing people battling for their lives yet still holding on to hope,” noting it made him renewed his dedication to extending a helping hand to the people in need. “Moments like that keep me grounded and remind me why we must always look out for one another and how much difference a little help can make in someone’s life.”

Onireti thus assured “We won’t stop, God willing.”

ogbomosoinsightonline.com recalls few weeks ago, he donated multi-million naira medical equipment and materials to Ladoke Akintola University of Technology LAUTECH Teaching Hospital Ogbomoso, to, in his words, bolster service deliveries in the hospital.

In the past too, he helped patients pay their medical bills at BUTH and donated provisions and other needs to the patients just as he gifted foodstuffs to inmates of the Leper Colony in Ogbomoso.