Nawgu Development Union, Dunukofia Local Government Area, has enrolled one hundred and four Nawgu indigenes into the Anambra State Health Insurance scheme, a scheme provided by the Anambra State Government for improved health status of Ndi Anambra.
The event organized at Nawgu General Hospital, was attended by the Assistant Governor of Rotary International District 9142, in charge of Zone 38, Rotarian Abuchi Nwozor and other dignitaries, and featured health talks, counseling, free medical checks and treatments of various degrees of ailment for over two hundred people who were both indigenes and non-indigenes of Nawgwu community.
Speaking on the essence of the free medical intervention, the President General, Nawgu Development Union, Prince Frank Nwaegwu, represented by the Chairman of the union’s Committee on Health, Dr Lazarus Okafor said that the gesture was part of his team’s commitment towards uplifting the living standard and health status of people in the community, assuring that Nawgu Development Union will register more eight hundred and ninety-six indigenes under the ASHIA scheme before December this year, to fulfill the promise of enrolling one thousand persons in the state’s health scheme.
He expressed dissatisfaction with the low rate at which people in the area patronize the General Hospital, encouraging them to always go for medical checks and treatments at the facility, instead of patronizing substandard medical outfits for their own good, even as he disclosed that the ASHIA package for the people is designed in a way that the beneficiaries will only pay ten percent of the total cost of their treatment when they access health facilities.
Earlier while flagging off the free medical outreach, the Transition Committee Chairman of Dunukofia Council Area, Mr. Augustine Onyemaobi commended Nawgu Development Union on the gesture, which he adjudged worthy of emulation by other communities in the area and the state in general, saying it will go a long way in improving the health status of the people.
He encouraged well-to-do individuals in Nawgu and other communities in the state to do more for the less-privileged, as a way of complementing the efforts of the government towards bettering the society.
Some of the beneficiaries who spoke to the ABS, including Mr. Nnamah Nwoye and Mr. Pius Okoyezojie, expressed happiness for being among ASHIA and free treatment beneficiaries and thanked the President General of the community and his team for the initiative, praying God to continue to bless them and give them more wisdom to pilot the affairs of the community.
The mother of the Nawgu President General, Mrs. Virginia Nwaegwu commended her son, for using his present position to positively touch the lives of the downtrodden, assuring that she is in support of the good works her son has been doing for the community, even before his election as the President General.
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