The Senator representing Ebonyi Central Senatorial Zone and Chairman, Senate committee on Information and National Orientation, Engr Kenneth Eze has flagged off free medical outreach Worth two hundred and fifty million Naira (250,000,000) to over ten thousand constituents.
Speaking during the flag off ceremony at Onueke township stadium, Ezza South Local Government Area of the state Senator Eze said, the free medical outreach was born out of his passion to help his people have access to medicare.
He noted that many people have died of treatable ailments due to lack of access to medicare, hence the need to give his constituents the free medical treatment.
Eze explained further that the free medical program is wired to treat all kinds of ailments as qualified medical professional are on ground to carry out the task.
"This medical outreach is born out the passion to help our People to have access to medicare. I discovered that my constituents considering their background sometimes go down with common ailments due to their inability to access functional medicare or to fund it.
"Most of the request each time I come back home to meet with my constituents is on medical ground and I have been paying medical bills running into millions. I have gone to hospital to pay their bills because some of them after been discharged are not allowed to go home because of their inability to pay bills. I now decided since this seems to be a general problem, let's have a package where everybody can be captured and have access to best medicare.
"Here today, you have all departments in medical field been re-presented, and in special area, even in cancer treatment. We just left the cancer section at the health facility there, where they are been screened of cervical cancer, prostrate cancer and all other ailments that our people cannot afford to treat on their own. These are part of the reason that we put up this program.
"We have equally decided to put up this program based on the fact that our people lack that consciousness to approach professional medical practitioners to screen them and actually identify what is their problem.