The Senator representing Ebonyi Central Senatorial Zone and Chairman, Senate committee on Information and National Orientation, Engr Kenneth Eze has flagged off free medical outreach Worth two hundred and fifty million Naira (250,000,000) to over ten thousand constituents.
Speaking during the flag off ceremony at Onueke township stadium, Ezza South Local Government Area of the state Senator Eze said, the free medical outreach was born out of his passion to help his people have access to medicare.
He noted that many people have died of treatable ailments due to lack of access to medicare, hence the need to give his constituents the free medical treatment.
Eze explained further that the free medical program is wired to treat all kinds of ailments as qualified medical professional are on ground to carry out the task.
"This medical outreach is born out the passion to help our People to have access to medicare. I discovered that my constituents considering their background sometimes go down with common ailments due to their inability to access functional medicare or to fund it.
"Most of the request each time I come back home to meet with my constituents is on medical ground and I have been paying medical bills running into millions. I have gone to hospital to pay their bills because some of them after been discharged are not allowed to go home because of their inability to pay bills. I now decided since this seems to be a general problem, let's have a package where everybody can be captured and have access to best medicare.
"Here today, you have all departments in medical field been re-presented, and in special area, even in cancer treatment. We just left the cancer section at the health facility there, where they are been screened of cervical cancer, prostrate cancer and all other ailments that our people cannot afford to treat on their own. These are part of the reason that we put up this program.
"We have equally decided to put up this program based on the fact that our people lack that consciousness to approach professional medical practitioners to screen them and actually identify what is their problem.
"We have drugs to administer to all identified ailments. We have artificial limbs, walking aids, hearing aids,eye glasses. We have departments that handles all kinds of ailments. A lot of people have been screened and given eye glasses, over there at the health center, operation is going on now for those that present with hernia and are stable for surgical operation because we have major surgeons here. So, this function is a total package, addressing every facets of medicine, including oathopaedic. We have one that have spinal cord injury, they have recommended a major surgery for him. we are going to sponsor him to oathopaedic hospital Enugu and we are going to pay the bills one hundred percent. They are so many cases they have been discovered here and it is going to be an ongoing process because tomorrow we're here, next tomorrow we're here, until we get to the stage we believe we have attended to enough people before we start going from local government to local government.
"We're equally lunching our insurance medical scheme, that will be done tomorrow. The team were here but we want to capture as many people as possible. We pay a particular fund into the scheme so that once you have been given the card, you can be treated without kobo in any hospital under scheme whenever you present your card. That's part of the package we have included in this program.
"We will also do a follow-up to anyone we have treated here because we have enough medical professional here.
"We have determined to help our people to be alive because before anything, you have to be alive. If you are to farm, you have to be alive to do the farm. We see this medicare as the major thing our people need and that is why we decided to put enough funds in it.
For now, because we're going round the four local government Areas after here, we have budgeted for over ten thousand persons with different kinds of ailments, the worse you can think of, that's why we have put up this program", senator Eze concluded.
Some of the beneficiaries who spoke to our correspondent, commended the senator for the gesture and prayed for God's continued protection over him and his family.
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