The Wife of Ebonyi Governor. Mrs MaryMaudline Nwifuru, Saturday, through her pet project, Better Health for Rural Women, Children and Internally Displaced Foundation (BERWO) partnered AE-FUTHA, WHO, UNICEF among others to organise a free medical outreach at Oferekpe Agbaja Primary school in Izzi Local Government Area of the state.
Mrs Nwifuru represented by Nkechi Emma Echiagu, wife of the chief of staff urged the people to take advantage of the outreach to access free tests and treatment, free consultations, eye and dental care services, free drugs and health education.
The governor’s wife explained that the intervention was to step down the objective of her per project to provide better health services for the rural populace.
She reiterated her commitment to ensure that her foundation continues to touch lives of people in the state.
The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of AE-FUTHA Prof Robinson Onoh said that the outreach was designed to ensure that Mrs Nwifuru zeal of providing basic health care delivery to the society is achieved at the grassroot.
Onoh stated that his team would be providing eye, dental, general body screenings and other paediatrics, surgical, among other medical checks.
He said the exercise would be carried out to the 13 LGAs of the state.
In their separate remarks, Mrs Vivian Ibeako, State Coordinator of World Health Organisation and Mrs Comfort Nweke, Commended the wife of the Gov for her efforts and pledged to continue to support her initiatives.
Some Beneficiaries, Nwibo Sylvester, and Nwaka Nwebonyi appreciated the wife of the governor for the exercise and appealed for sustenance of the program
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