C’River LGA Chairmen In Awe As Rep Member Trains Health Workers, Organises Free Medical Outreach For Constituents
There was jubilation in Abi and and Yakurr local government areas of Cross River State on Wednesday as thousands of people in need of medical services on Wednesday thronged various health centres in Abi and Yakurr Local Government Areas of Cross River State to benefit from the comprehensive free medical outreach facilitated for them by their representative in the House of Representatives, Dr Alex Egbona.
The medical outreach is expected to last till Saturday. Apart from medical checks and issuance of drugs, the medical experts drawn from Abuja, Enugu, Abakiliki and Calabar also undertook surgical operations on the people, including eye, hyena and fibroid.
It came after health workers in the federal constituency had been trained for three days on maternal and child care, courtesy of the same lawmaker. The outreach, which Egbona said would be an annual event, was flagged off in both Abi and Yakurr in Yakurr LGAs at Agbara and Nko respectively, and will continue in other health centres till Saturday.
Chairmen of the two local government areas expressed happiness with Egbona for the quality of service he has been rendering to the people of the Abi/Yakurr Federal Constituency as member of the House of Representatives.
The chairman of Abi LGA, Chief Bassey Egbala flagged off the outreach at the Ngarabe primary health centre, while his Yakurr counterpart, Hon. Yibala Inyang flagged off the outreach at Nko.
The outreach will hold in eight designated primary health centres in the two LGAs and will end on Saturday.
Speaking shortly after being taken round all the service points at the health centre, chairman of Abi expressed gratitude to Dr Alex Egbona for his sacrificial commitment to the welfare of his people. He said he was proud of the lawmaker’s continued service to the people.
He had accompanied Egbona to Yakurr, where he joined his colleague for the flag-off. Speaking at Yakurr, Chief Egbala said he was shocked at what he saw in Abi, saying it was the first time in his life to witness such a comprehensive medical outreach.
He affirmed that Dr Egbona has shown extraordinary love for this people over the years and noted his readiness to partner the lawmaker to attract greater service delivery for the people.
Chairman of Yakurr, who also spoke at Nko said Yakurr people were very happy with Dr Egbona for giving life to the people. According to him, by providing free medical service to Yakurr people, Dr Egbona had extended the life span of the masses and deserved to be commended.
Dr Egbona who expressed satisfaction at the massive turn out and cooperation of patients and the medical team drawn from Abuja, Abakiliki, Calabar and Enugu said he decided to attract facilitate the medical outreach because of the love he has for his people.
He said it was important for the people to continue to live in peace, support the state and local government authorities and refrain from anything that would provoke communal crisis with neighbouring states, saying a lot more would be attracted to the federal constituency.
For example, he said already, some of the health centres have been provided with solar energy for 24 hours power supply, while solar street lights have equally been mounted around the various health centres.
He said plans were underway to construct official quarters for health workers in all the health centres and hinted that in the next few days, medical equipment, treated mosquitoe bed nets, drugs and other facilities will be supplied to the existing health centres.
Even though the outreach was expected to commence on Wednesday, patients who needed surgery arrived the Agbara health centre where all general surgeries took place on Monday morning.
As at Wednesday, no fewer than 70 surgical operations, ranging from hyenia, fibroid and other cases had been done.
