By Umar Dankano, Yola.
The Senatorial Candidate of Adamawa Central senatorial district, Comrade Mus tapha Salihu has donated consumables worth Millions of Naira to the Dialysis centre of the Modibbo Adama Teaching Hospital(MAUTH) Yola.
Salihu who is vying for the Senatorial seat under the All progressives Congress (APC) Platform handed over the consum ables to the hospital management in Yola on Monday reiterating his zeal to do more as long as he breathes and with the capability to do so.
The Senatorial hopeful in the 2027 polls explained that the consumables, said to be enough for 200 courses of dialysis, were meant to lower the cost of dialysis sessions at the hospital.
He emphatically stated that,there is no political motive behind his gesture rather contributing his own quota to boosting the well being of the populace in his little way.
“We are glad to be of help to the hospital. The commodities will go round to people of varying political persuasions and cultural backgrounds, to make health care less costly to them,” he said.
He promised to procure more of the commodities whenever the hospital management may notify him that the current supplies are running out.
Salihu who was accompanied to the hospital by prominent politicians that included Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Bathiya Wesley, and the APC House of Representatives candidate for the Yola North/ Yola South/Girei constituency, Ahmad Salihijo, said he would be collaborating with Salihijo to provide a solar power minigrid so that the hospital could have steady electricity.
Receiving the consumables, the Chief Medical Director of MAUTH, Professor Adamu Bakari, affirmed that the commodities would reduce cost of dialysis in the hospital.
Bakari said past similar interventions in different areas of hospital care have brought down the cost of such services, including dialysis sessions.
According to him, some of such services, including C&S and fistula surgeries, are entirely free as enabled by donations in cash and in kind.
Speaking on behalf of the host communi ty, Alhaji Ahmadu Bingel applauded the foresight of comrade in supporting the hospital at the time of needs urging other well-to-do in the society to emulate his good gestures to humanity.
“Honestly we, the host community are applauding the philanthropic gestures being extended to us our politician cum philanthropist, Comrade Mustapha Salihu”.Bingel reiterated
