RSSDA Takes Medicare To Three Communities …Over 1,000 Patients Treated

In line with her pro-poor philosophy, the
Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency (RSSDA) in collaboration with the
Rivers State Ministry of Health, Cry4Help, a UK based charity organisation, and
ICD, a non-governmental organisation launched a six-day free medical mission to
three communities in the state during which about 1,500 patients were treated.

The mission which began on Monday, March
19th and ended Saturday, March 24th, 2012, visited Odagwa in Etche, Oyorokoto
in Andoni and Emelego in Abua/Odual Local Government Areas where they spent two
days at each community attending to the throng of patients there.

Speaking at the flag off ceremony at
Odagwa, Mr Noble Pepple, Executive Director/CEO, RSSDA, said that the mission
was borne out of the need to assist the people in the rural areas who are in
dire need of medical help.

The Commissioner of Health, represented by
the Director, Emergency Medical Services in the Ministry of Health, Dr Agiriye
Harry, urged the people to fully maximise the opportunity, and reiterated the
free medical policy of the Amaechi-led administration in the state.

At a “thank you” breakfast meeting in their
honour, the Executive Governor of the Rivers State, Rt. Honourable Chibuike
Amaechi, expressed his pleasure over the team’s strategic selection of the
benefiting border communities which, according to him, could have been easily
left out in the scheme of events.