The Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria, Delta State Hospital Management Board Chapter, has commenced free medical services across the nine medical zones in the State.
At the flagged off of the exercise at the Agbor medical zone, the Chairman of the Association, Dr Francis Nwabua, a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynecologist, said the free medical outreach will hold in every quarter until all the nine medical zones in the state were covered.
“We have just had a successful free medical services program at the Agbor Medical zone. In the next two years, starting with Owa-Alero and Owa-Oyibu communities in Agbor zone, we will be moving from one zone to the other on quarterly arrangement until all the medical zones are covered”.
Dr Nwabua explained that the free medical services is aimed at reaching out to the indigent and non registered contributory health scheme citizens in the state, thereby encouraging them to register and get specialists medical care available in the state hospitals.
“In addition, we are bringing quality healthcare to the doorsteps of Deltans in line with the Smart Health Policies of His Excellency, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa. Specialist consultations and surgeries in various medical disciplines were carried out including eye and teeth care as well as major and minor surgeries including removal of uterine fibroid, removal of ovarian cysts, repairs of hernias, to mention but few”, Dr Nwabua stated.
A Consultant Maxillofacial & Dental Surgeon with the Central Hospital Agbor, Dr Philemon Okolie, said the medical outreach was not only to bring quality healthcare to the people but also intimate them on the need to register with the State Contributory Health Scheme which will be beneficial to them.
Dr Okolie stressed that quality healthcare was achievable if the people availed themselves the opportunity created by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s administration to making quality healthcare affordable and accessible in the state.
In her remarks, the Vice Chairman of the association, Dr Benedicta Aghogho Akpe, a Consultant Ophthalmologist, General Hospital Okwe-Asaba, said that the body had impacted positively on the health needs of benefiting communities and would take the program to other areas of the state.
Dr Aghogho Akpe noted that Deltans were in need of quality healthcare and enjoined the people to always seek out specialist care which are available in the state government hospitals across the state.