Medical health screening exercise has commenced for various ailments on people of all ages across the state.
The screening taking place at the Enugwu-Ukwu General hospital, Njikoka council area, is being carried out by a team of medical professionals from Belgium.
Our Correspondent Ngozi Obileri monitored the progress of the two weeks health intervention programme and reports that over eight hundred patients have been screened on the second day of the programme.
When the ABS arrived the Enugwu-Ukwu General Hospital, patients were seen in their numbers, waiting to be screened while drugs were dispensed to those already diagnosed especially people whose ailments can be treated immediately.
Speaking to the ABS, the leader of the team of professional nurses and doctors, Dr Paul Acker, said they were engaged by members of Igbo Union Belgium, to come to Anambra to offer pathology and other services to Ndi Anambra and explained that they started with screening and will commence surgery from Monday.
On his part, a member of Igbo Union Belgium, Mr. Paschal Onyia who hails from Nimo and a footballer by profession, said the free medical mission is part of ways to help the Igbo race as the medical intervention will be carried out in five states in the South East.
The Acting Head of Administration , Anambra state Hospitals Board, Dr Richmond Achukwu said the team headed by an Anambra indigene, were in the state earlier in the year, to assess the Enugwu-Ukwu hospital, when they requested for the theater to be renovated and reequipped, in preparation for the visit.
Dr Achukwu noted that they are happy to be in the state because of the conducive environment made possible by Governor Willie Obiano, whom he said gave the team maximum support to aid the outreach.
He said that about eighteen of them have already arrived, and more are still on their way to ensure that many will benefit from the medical mission which is free of charge.
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