By Our Correspondent
The Seyi Tinubu Support Initiative (STSI), on Monday, offset the N3 million medical bills of 16 discharged indigent patients at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja.
The Convener of the Initiative, Mr Moyosore Adebanjo, said the gesture was part of activities to celebrate Seyi Tinubu’s birthday.
TheNewsZenith reports that Seyi is the son of President Bola Tinubu.
According to Adebanjo, the gesture is to also put smiles on the faces of some indigent Nigerians, in the face of the current economic realities.
“This initiative is in commemoration of the birthday of a very great friend and associate.
“The celebrant is a humanist who has come through for everybody and I think this is the only way we can celebrate him.
“His birthday is Oct. 13 and this is why we have chosen to come to LASUTH.
“We are here to identify patients, who have been discharged but cannot afford to pay the bills and are still in the hospital.
“We presented a cheque of N3 million to the hospital management to discharge these patients.
“And, so that they can reunite with members of their respective families.
“What we are doing here is also being replicated in other parts of the country, by other friends of Seyi
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“And this shows that he has come through for people, irrespective of gender, political affiliation, ethnicity and socio-economic status,” TheNewsZenith quotes Adebanjo as saying.
He added that the group will also visit the Kirikiri Correctional Centre, to replicate the same gesture.
Adebanjo urged Nigerians to support the President Bola Tinubu-led administration.
He noted that some of the Tinubu administration’s reforms would yield results in no distant time.
Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo, Chief Medical Director (CMD) of LASUTH, lauded the convener for the kind gesture toward the patients.
Fabamwo felicitated the celebrant and wished him more glorious years ahead.
He recalled that President Tinubu, as a former governor of the state, upgraded the hospital to a tertiary institution.
“This was to further intensify and increase the training of medical practitioners and other allied health care professionals,” he said.
According to him, the hospital currently has 200 experts, consultants, surgeons, physicians and various social specialists.
They are catering for the health needs of Lagos residents and beyond, he added.
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