Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Corps member offers free eye services to villagers

Ezra Ijioma


In furtherance of the scheme's community development service, a corps member, Dr. Emwanta Egbe, has offered free eye treatment and counselling worth N1m to people of Dobi village in Gwagwalada Area Council of Abuja.








Egbe, who is an optometrist undergoing his mandatory National Youth Service Scheme with the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, said the project was aimed at complementing government's efforts at providing basic healthcare for the people.

Speaking to PUNCH, he said, "My heart bleeds when I see patients who cannot pay the little medical bills and this prompted me to embark on this project.

"The kind of service you get from the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital was brought to locals of Dobi village free.

"Drugs, glasses and minor surgery were offered free and complicated cases were referred to the University Teaching Hospital."

Dr. Egbe mobilised a team of eye doctors and raised funds from personal savings,

friends and well-meaning individuals.

While expressing thanks for the humanitarian gesture, the village head of Dobi

village, Alhaji Suleiman Sani Dobi, said this is the first time such a project has been done in the village despite its proximity to the Federal Capital Territory.

Alhaji Sani Dobi said, "Eye problem is the major health problem of people in my community. Because of poverty, many of us do not go for eye checks nor can we

afford treatments at hospital.

The people of Dobi village from the bottom of

their hearts thank Dr. Egbe for caring out this project for our

community."

During the event, drugs and glasses were distributed to 500 locals in Dobi

village.


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Optometrists are always down 2 d grass root & they hv helped this country a lot.my own eyes was saved by an optometrist in 1988@awka when lawn tennis ball hit my eye.if nt 4 health politics in nija,by nw no person 4 de go blind frm certain disease.here ophthalmologist(even diplomates) want to kil optometry.

Talk is cheap. This guy is not on nairaland yapping his mouth. He actuallyu did something to make a difference and the best part of it is he didn't care that the recipients are not Igbo. Good job.

ikennahill:

Optometrists are always down 2 d grass root & they hv helped this country a lot.my own eyes was saved by an optometrist in 1988@awka when lawn tennis ball hit my eye.if nt 4 health politics in nija,by nw no person 4 de go blind frm certain disease.here ophthalmologist(even diplomates) want to kil optometry.

How?

God bless him.

At least he is not a moderator on NairaLand yapping nonsense.

the north is getting better gradually laffia

LouisThoro:

God bless him.

At least he is not a moderator on NairaLand yapping nonsense.

Lol, they must have banned shege outta you.

Aloy+Emeka:

Talk is cheap. This guy is not on nairaland yapping his mouth. He actuallyu did something to make a difference and the best part of it is he didn't care that the recipients are not Igbo. Good job.

[size=25pt]BUAHAHAHAHAHA [/size]@ bolded 

But I have to ask, where did oga  cofa get 1m from? Did I hear personal savings? Hmmmm. . .

Mai Suya:

[size=25pt]BUAHAHAHAHAHA [/size]@ bolded 

But I have to ask, where did oga  cofa get 1m from? Did I hear personal savings? Hmmmm. . .

Where do you think he got it from?

Why would you classify him as common? For crying out loud someone who could seize such initiative should not be term common!

shinaidowu:

Why would you classify him as common? For crying out loud someone who could seize such initiative should not be term common!

Do you rather I classify him as general?

Aloy+Emeka:

Where do you think he got it from?

No mind me jare. Ya know, the average, 'common' youth corp member who comes across as a hungry, shoe-filed job seeker, struggling to make ends meets with the ludicrously paltry N9700/month( did I hear it about 22k now?), somehow didn't fit the profile above. Then again, that's the problem with Mai suya and his stereotypes. . .wetin dey am por 1mil sef wey cofa no pit get. . . 

Kudos to the guy