Etche Diaspora Donates Equipment To Six Hospitals

Determined to improve the quality of healthcare service delivery in the area, the Etche-America Foundation, Houston chapter, Texas USA, has donated hospital equipment worth of millions of Naira to hospitals and health centres across six clans in Etche ethnic nationality in Rivers State.
The donation is part of the group’s contributions to ensure that quality of health and physical needs of the people of the area are improved upon as well as compliment the state government’s efforts in providing improved healthcare service delivery in the area.
Items distributed to the six healthcare facilities in the two local government areas of Etche and Omuma, include delivery beds, oxygen cylinders, examination couches, pulse oxidation meters, infrared thermometers, and digital weighing scales.
Others are sharp containers, PPEs, surgical gloves, hand sanitizers, and face masks, among others.
Speaking while handing over the equipment at a brief ceremony at the various hospitals and health centres, last weekend, the leader of the team, Dr Pedro Emem-Chioma, who represented the group, said the essence of the donation was to give support to the hospitals and health centres to improve their efforts at providing quality healthcare services to the people.
Emem-Chioma commended the benefiting health services providers in the area for their efforts and diligence in handling the health needs of the people despite the challenges of dearth of modern equipment confronting the various hospitals and health centres, adding that the equipment provided would assist them in discharging their duties effectively for the maximum benefit of the people.
According to him, the recipient hospitals and clinics were selected after a thorough investigation carried out by the selection team, adding that the team visited all the hospitals, clinics and health centres across the two local government areas of Etche and Omuma during the selection process.
“We went around the entire local government areas to conduct needs assessment in the hospitals and health centres, especially the functional ones in the areas”.
Earlier in their responses, the acting Ochimba of Okomoko community, Chief Samuel Otamiri; Ochimba Afara community, Eze Augustine Okere; Okehi community, Chief Micheal Anele of Mba; Chief Onyeche Onwuka of Eberi Omuma; Nkechi Ajoku; and Ozuzu community, Rev Stanley Eze Anam Ejie; expressed the gratitude to the group for remembering them, and promised to make judicious use of the equipment for the benefit of the people.
The Tide reports that General Hospital, Okomoko; Community Health Centres of Afara, Mba Ozuzu and Eberi Omuma as well as Baptist Mission Clinics, Okehi 1; all in Etche and Omuma LGAs, were the beneficiaries of the medical equipment donation.

By: Akujobi Amadi