Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has provided free medical health care to over 3,000 patients of General Hospital in Oguta local government area of Imo State.
The programme aims to address the health needs of underserved communities in the Niger Delta region.
In a statement issued by the director, Corporate Affairs, Pius Ughakpoteni, the NDDC managing director, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, said that the week-long free healthcare programme, organised in partnership with the Arit Walden Free Healthcare Mission, was in compliance with the commission’s mandate to intervene in the health needs of the people.
Ogbuku, who was represented by the NDDC director of Education, Health and Social Services, Dr. George Uzonwanne, said that over two million Niger Deltans, who had little or no access to modern health facilities, had benefited from the medical missions over the years.
He said that the medical interventions ranged from consultations for things such as malaria or upper respiratory tract infections or children who had cuts, to cogent cases such as fibroid surgeries, eye surgeries with intraocular lens implantation and dental surgeries.
Ogbuku noted that there were many remarkable stories and testimonies which had come out of these interventions, emphasising that what NDDC had done was to provide the platform for God to perform miracles in the lives of our people.
