Determined to compliment the efforts of the Abia State government in healthcare delivery, Victor Chinedu Egbulefu Foundation (VCEF), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has launched a free community health fair in Aba, the commercial nerve centre of the state.
Flagging off the event last weekend, Eze Isaac Ikonne, royal father and Imperial Majesty, Enyi 1of Aba, described the gesture as “one of a kind.”
Ikonne commended the facilitators of the programme, Victor Chinedu Egbulefu Foundation (VCEF) for driving such a welfarist programme.
At the launch, the NGO, with their team of volunteer health workers, gave free medical treatment to hypertensive, diabetic and ulcer patients and also attended to other patients with infectious diseases.
Victor Egbulefu, a US-based pharmacist and the facilitator of the outreach, said the programme would be run in phases and was planned to reach all rural and urban communities in Abia State.
According to him, “The objective is to compliment government efforts in health care delivery and to save the lives of people that cannot access government facilities. This is why we have to move from community to community to reach the people in their domain.”
Egbulefu further disclosed that the NGO plans to embark on other social and community engagement outreach which will include youth empowerment and educational development programme, among others.
Godwin Adindu, director-general, Abia State Orientation Agency (ABSOA), who was a special guest at the event, said with the launch and debut of the free Community Health Fair, succour has now come the way of the downtrodden in the communities that lack the wherewithal for appropriate medical attention.
Adindu commended the NGO for their patriotic gesture, adding that the initiator of the fair has demonstrated that he is a lover of his state and countrymen.
“Dr. Egbulefu has shown that he is a patriot. Such interventions are what we require from our people in the Diaspora,” he said.
