Driven by mission to improve the lives of its subscribers and Nigerians, the MTN Foundation (MTNF), a foundation established in 2004 to improve the quality of life the country by the telecom giant – MTN Nigeria has spent over N9 billion on various life-improving projects in Nigeria, including medicine, education, and economic empowerment.
The telcos company, through its foundation, has over the years offered medical intervention to Nigerians through its medical support project, eye sight restoration intervention scheme, annual community health screening project, sickle cell project in addition to education, security and economic empowerment interventions across the 36 states and federal capital.
Speaking at the MTN Foundation hand-over ceremony of MTNF Y’ello Doctor Mobile Medical Intervention Scheme held in Abeokuta, Nonny Ugboma, executive secretary, MTN Foundation said that the company, having considered its corporate social responsibility to Nigerians, supported federal and state governments in improving overall healthcare delivery.
Ugboma disclosed that the telecom giants established Y’ello Doctor Mobile Medical Intervention Scheme to help federal and state ministries of health reach every nook and cranny of the country through mobile clinics, saying that the foundation was deploying six mobile clinics to six states that cut across the six geo-political zones of the country under the first phase.
She said, “Under the first phase, a total of 6 state-of-the-art mobile clinics will be deployed to six states nationwide – Abia, Delta, Ogun and Taraba states and then to one state each in the North-Central and North-West Geo-political zones of the country. The intervention has already been officially commissioned in Taraba and Abia states just as we are now doing here in Ogun state.
“Each mobile clinic is fully stocked with medical consumables and drugs and is designated to provide ready access to maternal and child health care services, as well as tips on prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases. As at today, the Foundation has invested over N9 billion in executing various projects in 338 locations across the 36 states of Nigeria and FCT.”
Launching the MTN Foundation Y’ello Doctor Mobile Medical Intervention Scheme, Governor Ibikunle Amosun said that the mobile clinic would only serve six local government areas in the state, just as he revealed government’s intention to procure mobile clinics to support the MTN mobile medical intervention scheme.
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