By Chinwe Imo-Eze Onwosi
The Ebonyi state governor’s wife has through her foundation, Better Health for Rural Women, Children and Internally Displaced Foundation (BERWO) offered free medical checks to 100 indigent persons in Izzi Local Government Area (LGA).
The outreach which held on Saturday at Oferekpe Agbaja Primary School was in partnership with Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki (AE-FUTHA), World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund, amongst others.
Speaking at the occasion, Nwifuru,, said she was poised to providing free healthcare to indigent citizens of the state this festive period in tandem with the missionof her foundation to provide better health for rural populace.
Nwifuru assured that the foundation would continue to touch the lives of the people in the state.
Speaking at the outreach, the Chief Medical Director of AE-FUTHA, Prof. Robinson Onoh, said the exercise was in line with the governor’s wife drive to step down basic healthcare delivery in the grassroot.
Onoh said that his team would be providing eye, dental, general body screening, paediatrics and surgical, among other medical checks.
He said the exercise would also be carried out in the 13 LGAs of the state.
In separate remarks, the state Coordinator of WHO, Mrs Vivian Ibeako, said it would ensure that people were referred to right medical care.
“We are also encouraging them with some items to access healthcare,” Ibeako said.
The Zonal Coordinator, Association of Micro Credit Institution of Nigeria, Mrs Comfort Nweke, commended the governor’s wife for her efforts and pledged to continue to support her initiatives.
Two beneficiaries, Mr slyvester Nwibo and Mrs Nwaka Nwebonyi, thanked the governor’s wife for the exercise and appealed that it should be sustained
