HEALTH IS WEALTH AS PROF ANDY EGWUNYENGA COMMENDS NIGERIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION DELTA STATE CHAPTER ON ANNUAL MEDICAL OUTREACHES
The Vice Chancellor of Delta State University, Abraka, Prof Andy Egwunyenga Ogochukwu, has applaud the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Delta State Branch for its annual medical outreaches aimed at taking quality health-care to the grassroots in the interest of the masses.
Prof Andy Egwunyenga made this praises on Wednesday during the 2024 One-Day Stella Adadevoh Memorial Medical Outreach at Atuma-Iga in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State been his home Town.
He was also very excited about the medical outreach because it served as a constant reminder of the selfless sacrifice of Dr Stella Adadevoh who restrained Patrick
Sawyer, who was on a visit to Nigeria from Liberia, from spreading the dreaded Ebola virus in Nigeria in 2014 at the cost of her life. He also said he was particularly pleased that NMA chose his home town, Atuma-Iga, as venue for the 2024 edition, noting that the large crowd of patients from the town and neighbouring communities attest to the high positive impact of the medical outreach.
He appealed to well-meaning Nigerians to always support the NMA to sustain the praiseworthy initiative.
Speaking at the occasion, the Chairman of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) Delta State Branch .Dr Carter Okolakpa along side with Prof Anthony Ojieh, thanked Prof Egwunyenga for collaborating with the association to organize the 2024 edition of the medical outreach.
In his reaction during a courtesy call by the organisers on him in his palace, the traditional ruler of Atuma-Iga, HRH Obi Chukwuka Daniel Ogbudo, thanked the NMA and Prof Egwunyenga for organising the medical outreach in his community.
He urged them to sustain the programme because of the positive impact on the masses and prayed for God to bless them and replenish their purse so that they can do more for the commoners. He called on other philanthropists to emulate Prof Egwunyenga and NMA in promoting free quality health-care delivery at the grassroots.
