Succour As Osun Ex-Commissioner pays Patients Medical Bills To Mark Birthday

Dr Wale Bolorunduro, his wife and some patients at the OAUTHC. 

Respite came to the indigent patients at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex(OAUTHC) who were unable to pay their medical bills when  Wale Bolorunduro Foundation came to their aid by paying their unpaid medical bills to commemorate the 51st birthday anniversary of the immediate past Commissioner for Finance, Budget and Economic  Planning in Osun state,  Dr. Samuel Adewale Bolorunduro.

The indigent patients were full of joy and relieve when the foundation paid about N1 million medical bills owed the institution as  part of the foundation's health care intervention scheme.

The patients are those who had received treatment and discharged but were not allowed to leave the hospital premises as a result of their inability to pay their medical bills.

This is because according to the Corporate Affairs section of the hospitals, the hospital don’t reject patient. Patients must be admitted and taken care of making the poor ones unable to pay and the hospital not releasing them until they source for funds to clear their debts.

Thus, the need for philanthropic organizations like Bolorunduro Foundation to come to their aids

Some of the beneficiaries of the gesture include Michael Thompson who was treated for diabetes but could not go back home for two weeks because he owed the hospital N110,000; Ajelogun Titus who was treated for depression and has been discharged for over two weeks but cannot leave the hospital because he owed them N88,000; Gbadegesin Ayodeji who has been treated for leg related ailments owed the hospital N88,335 among others.

The recipient all showered encomiums on the Foundation for their deliverance and restoration out of the milk of kindness just as they all prayed for the Foundation and its Chairman-Dr. Wale Bolorunduro.

Speaking at the event, Dr. Wale Bolorunduro who tagged it as "celebrating with the down trodden" said "my heart is always with the down trodden because I realized that I have received special favour of God in spite of the fact that I was brought up by an aged grandmother”.

Explaining the genesis of the Foundation, Bolorunduro said that an old woman was brought to his office when he was promoted as the General Manager of Zenith Bank in Lagos in 2006. The woman has already lost

one of her eyes to ailmentsand was about to lose her remaining one because she required US8,000 dollars which was out of her reach.

This according to him, made him to write the American Embassy in order to secure visa for her to do corrective surgery in the United States of America.

Bolorunduro disclosed that he followed this up by writing to a group of friends to team up with him to raise the money to save the old woman’s eyes. This eventually gave birth to the Foundation in 2006.

Highlighting some of the achievements of the foundation since then, he said, '' we have started and continue to give scholarships as well as various empowerment schemes.

 It is on record that I made the NigerianBanks foray into and put their money into the telecommunications business and that has contributed to the emergence of mobile phone system that we are enjoying now.

''When I became the Commissioner, I realized that almost all the roads

constructed by the previous administrations were in dilapidated conditions, I got the ears of Mr. Governor and used the money and

brain needed to facilitate the development of infrastructure with particular reference to road construction and rehabilitation”

The management of the hospital while appreciating Dr. Bolorunduro for

his gesture however tasked him to do more in various areas of intervention like water required by the hospital.


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