*Ogbaru constituents eulogise Hon. Ogene, NACA over free medical outreach*


Hundreds of residents of Ogbaru Federal Constituency of Anambra State have eulogised the member representing the constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Afam Victor Ogene, for providing them free medical services.

The beneficiaries, who cut across natives and non-natives, sang praises of Hon. Ogene at the Central School, Odekpe, where various medical experts carried out tests on them for various ailments including malaria, HIV, diabetes, typhoid, hypertension, cholera and various eye problems. Drugs were given to those diagnosed with diseases for free.

Consultant for the free medical outreach, Mr. Tunde Ojo, said over 1,500 patients were targeted to benefit from the programme facilitated by Hon. Ogene, chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Renewable Energy, and funded by the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), in partnership with Niphemy Solutions Limited.

The co-ordinator of medical services, Dr. Umeoranefo Isaiah, praised Hon. Ogene for facilitating the medical services, stating that the best service any leader who loves his people would provide them is sound health.

Dr. Isaiah stated that the most common ailment among the people from the diagnosis is malaria, typhoid, eye problems, especially blurry eye, which he said is a sign of diabetes complications, cataract, etc.

All the medical services which included screening for various ailments, provision of drugs and medicated eye glasses were given the beneficiaries free.

Hon. Chinedu Uwollo, a legislative aide to Hon. Ogene, explained that the free medical services was a deliberate programme aimed at delivering quality health services to stem the rate of avoidable deaths among the people, adding that the medical outreach will be extended to other communities in future since the two-day medical outreach was targeted at the people in smaller areas in the constituency.

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