Ebonyi deputy Speaker, Onah enrolls over 100 widows into free Healthcare scheme

The deputy speaker of Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Chinedu Onah at the weekend has enrolled over one hundred widows into free healthcare delivery services.

The Nations News Nigeria reports that the beneficiaries was slated from the various communities in Ohaukwu Local Government area of Ebonyi State.

Onah said that he was poised to enroll the beneficiaries into the Ebonyi State health insurance agency, EBSHIA, with a view to support the programs of the governor’s wife, Mrs. Mary Maudlin Uzoamaka Nwifuru in the state.

The deputy speaker, Onah who flagged off the widows free healthcare enrollment program which took place at the grace garden and event center in Ohaukwu local government of Ebonyi state, said that the program is targeted at reducing the hardship and sufferings that people pass through, especially the widows.

Onah who is representing Ohaukwu south constituency in the state house of assembly, used the free healthcare enrollment program to distribute palliatives to the widows as a way to celebrate Easter with them.

He however declared his committed efforts to continue to partner the pet project of the governor’s wife, BERWO, to better the health of rural women, children and the internally displaced people in the state, especially in Ohaukwu south constituency.

The Deputy speaker, Onah however, commended the Wife of the Governor, Mary Maudlin Uzoamaka Nwifuru for championing the course of the less privileged, the children, and the vulnerable through the instrumentality of BERWO.

According to him: “Your Excellency, you have through this your pet project touched lives and liberated many families from the shackles of poverty and lack. And have placed them into the state of comfort and abundance.

“Our aim is to key into this ideology of touching lives and giving arms to the needy.

“I passionately urge people in position of authority in our state to emulate the humanitarian tenets of the Governor’s wife to make our society better”, Onah said.