Bashir Hassan Abubakar
A Bauchi based professional NGO known as Bauchi State Union of Volunteers and Temporary Health Workers, have carried out 3 days Free Male Circumcision in Dambam Local Government Area of Bauchi State to mark the commencement of it’s 2022 activities.
A press statement signed by the Chairman of the Union, Comrade Yusuf Aliyu Fada said the exercise is part of the Union’s work plan implementation process.
Fada said that the same exercise was carried out in Bauchi LG in 2021, where over 1000 male children were circumcised free.
He said the current medical outreach services has targeted three districts of the LG that comprises Dambam, Dagauda and Jalam Districts respectively.
“Our union members from the LG made this effort through funds raised from members dues. It is also heart warming to note that the outreach exercise got support from some community champions that includes :Senator Mohammed A. Mohammed , Honorable Idris Buba Jalam, Honorable Babale Abubakar, Honorable Shehu Yunusa and Honorable Bala Basko respectively”.
“We will like to seize this opportunity to re-echo our appeal to Bauchi State Government to consider employing members of the union in order to bridge the widening gap of manpower in the health sector of Bauchi State.
“We are skilled service providers that have been rendering volunteer services at the health facilities. We are already in the system at volunteer capacity. It shouldn’t be difficult for government to mainstream us into the service”, said Fada.
The Chairman of the volunteer health workers further appeal to well meaning Nigerians, Politicians and NGOs to support the activities of the union because of the humanitarian services it is rendering to communities, especially those in hard to reach areas, that have no access to orthodox medical care.