The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) will today kick off the 2016 nationwide Health Initiative Week for Rural Dwellers (HIRD) in Taraba State.
According to the state NYSC Coordinator, Emmanuel Attah, the programme in Taraba State will hold at Kpanteen village in Donga Local Government Area of the state.

He said the flag-off will be performed by the Commissioner of Youths and Sports and Chairman NYSC Governing Board, Pastor Gambo Ude Indafo.

The Coordinator noted that the Health Initiative for Rural Dwellers (HIRD) programme is organised by the NYSC management to affect the lives of the rural dwellers positively, especially in the area of providing free health care services to the venerable, indigents and less privileged members of the society.

Corps medical doctors, nurses and other para-medical personnel who will provide counselling, testing and dispensing drugs to the members of the society based on the identified illness, have been mobilised for the exercise.

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