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Easter: Ebonyi First Lady Offsets Medical Bills Of Indigent Patients, Gifts Cash, Food To Orphans, Helpless
By Emmanuel Agbo, Abakaliki
The wife of Ebonyi State Governor Chief Mrs. Uzoamaka Mary-Maudline Nwifuru, has paid hospital bills to the indigent patients at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki.
The governor’s wife paid the bills on Friday, when she visited the male and female surgical wards of the facility to mark the Easter celebration.
Speaking to the patients, who were held back by the hospital because they could not pay their bills, she encouraged them not to lose hope in life but always pray for God’s help.
Our correspondent reports that the initiative formed part of her efforts to provide financial relief to the indigent patients facing economic hardship in the state through her pet project BERWO Foundation.
The Head of Department, Medical Social Work at the hospital, Dr. Sorochi Otu, commended the governor’s wife for her continued philanthropy.
Nwifuru’s Wife further donated bags of rice and paid the bills of indigent patients at the Rehabilitation Programme EFFATA, Ugbodo, in Ebonyi Local Government Area.
She also provided financial assistance and bags of rice to the Trinitarian Foundation for Orphans and Helpless and the Juvenile Remand Home during her Easter visits to the facilities.
The Director in charge of EFFATA, Mr. Onyibe Nwiboko, and the Rev. Sis. in charge of the foundation, Mary-Agnes Onyejiechi, expressed gratitude to her for her visit and kind gesture.
In a remark, Mr Emmanuel Nkwuda, Head of Department, Child Development in the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, lauded her for reconstructing the remand home.
Responding on behalf of the beneficiaries at the EFFATA facility, Mr. John Nweke, expressed joy over the visit by the governor’s wife and prayed God to reward her in millionfold.