The Federal Government says it provided free surgeries to 4,349 patients and screened 17, 793 indigent Nigerians in 2016.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, disclosed this in a statement issued by Mrs Boade Akinola, Director Media and Public Relations of the ministry, on Tuesday in Abuja.

The statement said the ministry had set a target to conduct 10,150 free surgeries and screenings to help alleviate the sufferings of some indigent Nigerians who cannot afford to pay.

According to the statement, the ministry also carried out over 200,000 nutritional interventions to Nigerians suffering from malnutrition in the North East.

It said the nutritional intervention has since been scaled up to become a full fledge project of the “Health Sector Nutrition and Emergency Response’
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