NAF provides free medical check-ups for IDPs, officers, general public

Air Commodore Olatokunbo Adesanya, who is Director Public Relations and Information, stated that “it was in fulfilment of the pledge earlier made by the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, to extend healthcare delivery to less privileged Nigerians, particularly those in IDP camps”.Adesanya said that “the screening and treatment were conducted by NAF medical personnel, who had earlier received in-house training as part of the capacity-building efforts of the NAF leadership’’.“The screening methods used by the NAF medical personnel included colposcopy, ultra-sound, mammogram and laboratory test of various tumour markers,” he said. The screening exercise provides enough space for the women from different IDP camps to run medical check-ups on other major aspects of their health condition without any cost.The week-long training, according to Chief of Air Staff, was to help officers and men of the Air Force access screening facilities at its hospital across the country, as it is provided at the NAF Hospital in Abuja.Air Marshal Abubaka however extended his assurance of an equal access to the IDPs and members of the public in the continuous performance of the exercise.The screening exercise took place at the newly built NAF Cancer Screening Centre in Maiduguri, Borno State capital.