No fewer than 202 Batch B National Youth Service Corps members in Osun seeking for relocation had their request granted.
The State Coordinator of the NYSC, Mr Emmanuel Attah, said this on Wednesday in Osogbo while briefing the NYSC Director-General, Brig-Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, who was on a visit to the permanent orientation camp in Ede.
The coordinator said the concerned corps members were part of the 2,480 registered for Batch B Programme.
He said while 135 corps members were relocated on health grounds, the remaining 67 were relocated for reasons of marriage and pregnancy.
Attah said the NYSC in the state was concerned about the well-being of the corps members and would accord them the necessary attention and treatment.
“Here in Osun, we are concerned about the health of our corps members and so at the point of their registration after they presented their certificates of fitness, we had to carry out re-screening on them.
“We decided to take a unique step by employing serving NYSC medical doctors alongside medical lab scientists, pharmacists and nurses, and they carry out thorough screening on the corps members.
“It was, however, shocking to discover so many cases of high blood pressure, sickle cell, tuberculosis and other health issues that were concealed by the corps members as against what they presented in their certificate of fitness.
“The re-screening, however, helped us to really take care of those in camp.
“ For those whose cases we cannot manage, we had no option than to relocate them for proper parental care,’’ he said.
Attah said the re-screening process did not affect registration and urged the NYSC director general to advise other states to key into what Osun did in order to ensure proper evaluation of the health status of corps members.
The director general congratulated the corps members for the successful completion of their degree programmes and admonished them to be good ambassadors of their institutions and families during the service year.
The director general, who was represented by Mrs Idowu Adetokunbo, NYSC’s Director of Reforms, equally urged the corps members to be security conscious.
He added that the commission would not tolerate rejection of posting by corps members and advised them to imbibe all that they had learned in camp, especially under the skills acquisition programme.
Kazaure noted that the skills learned would help them to become entrepreneurs rather than searching for white collar jobs.
