By Ononye VC
Following the avowed efforts of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Onitsha,Most Rev Valerian Okeke to ensure that mission hospitals in the Archdiocese remain efficient and operational to international standards,the Archdiocese during the week received a 40ft container loaded with various medical equipments.
The medical equipments which cost several millions of Naira was donated by an Ireland based medical doctor and philanthropist,Dr Linus Offiah and his wife,Lady Meg Offiah.
There was excitement and an air of gratitude to the donors and the Archbishop who facilitated the donation as the state of the art equipments were received at the St Charles Borromeo Teaching Hospital,Onitsha by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO)of the hospital Very Rev Fr Izunna Okonkwo,management staff,and other staff of the hospital.
In his remarks while receiving the equipments,fr Izunna Okonkwo expressed gratitude to the donors,Dr Linus and Lady Meg Offiah for their act of benevolence and philanthropy.
According to Fr Okonkwo,the donors,Dr Offiah and Lady Meg,have continued to procure and shipped several fully loaded containers of medical equipments to mission hospitals in Archdiocese of Onitsha.
Fr Okonkwo said that by doing so,the donors have contributed enormously towards transformation of health-care system of Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha.
Fr Okonkwo thanked the proprietor of mission hospitals in the Archdiocese of Onitsha,Most Rev Valerian Okeke for attracting such equipments through his friends and relatives with his international connections.
It would be recalled that many of such donations attracted by the Archbishop came from other humanitarian and philanthropic organisations in Hungary and United States of America.