Over 1000 Patients benefit from free medical outreach by AchiejeFoundation in Ebonyi.

Over 1000 patients including those suffering hypertension, diabetes, malaria and infectious diseases have so far benefited from the free medical outreach by a foundation in the area, Achieje foundation for indigent patients in the community.

The foundation established in honour of an Ex-Biafran soldier and a retired Civil Servant, Chief Okoronkwo Chita also distributed wrappers and bags of rice to widows in the community.

Leader of the Medical team that carried out the free Medical services, Dr. Okoronkwo Chita of Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki(AE-FUTHA), identified hunger and lack of proper care as major problems in Enuagu, Onicha local government area.

He said “the common findings here apart from the issue of deprivation that some people are hungry and don’t have people who can take care of them, some are unkempt, they are hungry. Apart from that, we have common problem of hypertension, diabetes. Some of the beneficiaries have diabetes and hypertension. We gave the treatment we could give and also encouraged them to go for further checkups in well-established hospitals.

“Some have malaria and we also gave them treatment for malaria because we were running test for malaria, for diabetes and we were also checking blood pressure. We also checked their temperature, those who had high temperature, we ran the malaria test on them. But those who didn’t have that, we just did blood pressure and also blood sugar. So, some of them have been given treatment and also encouraged to further their treatments in other hospitals that are well established”.