By Sunday Onyebuchi
Chris and Clara Ezike Foundation has presented 120 Anambra State Health Insurance identity cards to 120 indigent members of Ogboji community.
Performing the presentation of ID cards to the beneficiaries at Ogboji Town Hall, Orumba South LGA, the Founder/Chairman of the Foundation, Aig. Chris Ezike (rtd), said that the gesture is aimed at breaking all forms of barriers to accessing quality healthcare among the indigent members of Ogboji community.
Aig Chris Ezike represented by his mother, Mrs. Mabel Ezike said that the Foundation understood the plight of the most vulnerable members of Ogboji community in accessing quality healthcare and that his desire to sponsor the health insurance coverage in the community was to solve the challenges of health complications and death resulting from poverty, as it saves out-of-pocket expenses and helps spread good health.
The President General of Ogboji Community, Hon. Ndu Nwaedozie said that the beneficiaries were carefully selected among the 11 villages that made up Ogboji community. He said that all of the beneficiaries were identified by the village Chairmen with a strong instruction that those to be selected must belong to socio-economic disadvantaged backgrounds.
He said that those selected by the village chairmen were subjected to further screening to arrive at the 120 beneficiaries. Hon. Nwaedozie while thanking the Chairman of the Foundation, Aig. Chris Ezike and his wife, Mrs. Clara Ezike for prioritising the healthcare of members of the community said that Foundation has broken the barrier to accessing quality healthcare in the community among the vulnerable as healthcare is no longer a luxury reserved only for the rich, and called on other well-meaning Ogboji people to toe the footstep of Chris and Clara Ezike Foundation, so that more people can be enrolled.
Responding, some of the beneficiaries, Mrs. Victoria Nkam and Mr. Bennett Okeke were excited as they expressed gratitude to the Chris and Clara Ezike Foundation for the scheme, while also thanking the President General, Hon. Ndu Nwaedozie and his team for their coordination.
Highpoint of the event was the presentation of 120 identity cards to the benefiaries.
- Onyebuchi is of the Ministry of Information, Anambra State *
