By Jude Michael
The member representing Orumba North State Constituency in the Anambra State House of Assembly, Hon Paul Obu, has begun his 2024 free medical outreach in partnership with the National Association of Nigerian Nurses in North America, NANNNA, and the Anambra State Government, for the health needs of rural dwellers.
Some medical services to be offered to the beneficiaries include comprehensive eye checks and issuance of eyeglasses, blood pressure and sugar level checks, among others.
The free medical outreach will take five days and cover four communities of Ezira, Umuorji, Ajalli, and Akwaeze.
Flagging off the 5-day medical outreach with a lecture series at the office of the Secretary to the State Government, Awka, recently, the Chief Facilitator of the Project, Hon Obu, said this gesture was his way of giving back to society.
Obu stressed that the initiative was also in line with the 5-point Agenda of his campaign manifesto, which, he said, centred on education, youth development, health, security, and infrastructural development.
He affirmed his commitment and readiness to address the needs of his constituents in those critical sectors.
He advised the constituents, especially beneficiaries of the medical outreach, to maintain good health consciousness, personal hygiene, and adhere to medical prescriptions in order to recover and live longer.
The Anambra lawmaker commended the State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, for his achievements so far in the state’s health sector.
In his remarks, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr Afam Obidike, applauded the lawmaker for the initiative, noting that it complemented the effort of the state government in providing necessary medical infrastructure to ensure easy and affordable healthcare services for every Anambra resident.
Also, the Executive Secretary, Anambra State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Pharm Chisom Uchem, eulogized the lawmaker, for his magnanimity, describing his free medical outreach project as an answer to Governor Soludo’s call to affluent Anambrarians to embrace public-private partnership model for all-round development in the state.
She also thanked the NANNNA for their determination and contributions in making the grassroots health mission a success.
Earlier, the President of NANNNA, New Jersey Chapter, Mrs Stella Ngozi Okonkwo, who led the medical team; the association’s Health Chairperson, Dr Esther Oshunluyi, and Dr Tessy Okoro, in their separate speeches, extolled Hon Obu for organizing the medical outreach.
Decoration of Hon Obu as Anambra State NANNNA Patron, Induction of Pharm Uchem into the association and official opening of Ezira Primary Healthcare Centre, climaxed the medical outreach programme.
