Ahead of the five days free grassroots medical outreach for Delta north senatorial district scheduled for Wednesday October 20th 2021, wife of the Delta State Governor, Dame Edith Okowa, has asked Deltans in that region to seize the opportunity to be added to by team of qualified health workers.
This was disclosed on Tuesday October 19th 2021, by Special Assistant on Media to the wife of the governor, Mrs. Alicia Dominic-Okobi, and made available to newsmen in Asaba.
According to the release, “The wife of the state Governor and Founder 05 Initiative Dame Edith Okowa has called on Deltans to avail themselves of the 05 Initiative free grassroots medical outreach for Delta North, holding tomorrow at the Events Center, Asaba”.
The event, organized by the 05 Initiative in collaboration with Restore Sight Africa Initiative and the State Ministry of Health, is the grand finale of the medical outreach for 2021 edition.
According to the statement, the event would hold for 5 days at the Events Center Asaba, from tomorrow 19th to Saturday 23rd October, starting from 8:00am each day.
“It will feature free eye tests, provision of free eye glasses and eye ointments, free eye surgeries, as well as free covid-19 tests and other general body screening”.
The medical team had moved to Delta South on the 16th of October, with a record of 111 free eye surgeries, and distribution of 669 eye glasses and 500 eye drops.
In the statement, the Governor’s wife urged leaders in Delta north axis to mobilize indigenes of the area to enable them benefit, adding that the scourge of blindness and other forms of illnesses in the society could be reduced to the barest minimum, if everyone reached out to their neighbor according to their capability.
It would be recalled that the 2021 05 Initiative grassroots medical outreach started on the 6th of October in Delta Central, where a total of 108 free eye surgeries were successfully carried out, and over 500 eye drops and 400 glasses given out.
