As way to celebrate with Sickle Cell Disease, SCD, persons on World Sickle Cell Day, Anambra governor’s wife, Mrs Nonye Soludo, , spent time with children at the Sickle Cell Orphanage and Underprivileged Home, Agulu, Anaocha Local Government Area.
Mrs Soludo, who explained that the visit was to show her support to the children, explained that beyond the annual occasion, people with SCD deserve to always be cared for and celebrated.
Represented by the Anambra State Commissioner for Health, Dr Afam Obidike, who led the Healthy Living with Nonye Soludo’s team to the home, she noted that the state government is keen on opening up special opportunities for people with special needs to achieve their dreams without any impediments.
The Governor’s wife explained that the visit was to motivate the children to be focused and pursue their dreams without seeing their health status as any form of obstacle, and to also use their current situation as a motivation to lead awareness on the importance of genotype education.
She re-assured that the current administration will continue to support the home and others urging them to also take care of their health and pay special attention to what they eat.
Responding, the Director of the home, Mrs Aisha Edwards Maduagwu, who is also the National Coordinator of Association of Persons Living with Sickle Cell Disorder, APLSCD, said that the association is eager to utilize every opportunity and assistance from well-meaning benefactors for the growth and empowerment of vulnerable sickle cell children, as well as total eradication of sickle cell disease from Anambra State.
She noted that through the intervention of Governor Chukwuma Soludo, seventy-one persons with the disease have become free beneficiaries of Anambra State Health Insurance Scheme, while the home is also currently receiving monthly subventions from the state government.
Mrs Maduagwu also thanked Governor Soludo and his wife for prioritizing the welfare of people with special needs in the state and appealed to everyone to keep trusting and believing in their potential.
During the visit, Mrs Soludo donated food and cash to the home, where she had visited in similar measures just three months ago.
Recall that just a few days ago, the Anambra governor’s wife enrolled, for free, one thousand persons with special needs into the Anambra State Health Insurance Scheme to cover their medicals for one year.
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