Hardship: Ebonyi senator, Eze warns constituents to shun patronizing medical quacks, flags-off 250m outreach 

By Uchennaa Okeh, Abakaliki

The chairman Senate committee on information and orientation, sen. Ken Eze representing Ebonyi Central senatorial zone has warned his constituents to shun patronizing medical quacks in the state.

Eze, flagged off 250 million medical outreach to cushion the health challenges and hardship facing the people of the area.

He said he was poised to embark on the medical outreach to forestall the increase in patronizing quacks by rural dwellers, which according to him, results in unnecessary deaths recorded in the various communities of the zone.

The Lawmaker, Eze made this known while speaking with newsmen shortly after the flag off, which took place at Onueke township studium, Ezza South local government Area of Ebonyi state .

Eze said that the medical outreach was part of the constituency briefing, which according to him, is aimed at reducing the high cost of health challenges facing his constituents.

The lawmaker, however, revealed that the medical outreach is targeted at providing medical care to his constituents, considering the recent economic hardship in the country, which according to him resulted in the escalation of diseases, and vowed to enroll 10,000 persons into his foundation to enable them have access to good medical care.

“I said it the last time I had a constituency briefing that we are going to flag off 250 million medical outreach at Onueke township studium .

“This medical outreach is born out of my Passion to my people to have access to medical care and i discovered that my constituency considering their background, sometimes go down with common diseases but because of their inability to access functional medical or fund and seeing them going red on daily bases I have to come up with this program.

” You can imagine where somebody dies because of common malaria, you can agree with me that if you have malaria without treatment, it can lead to death in most cases, this people can not afford common malaria drugs because of difficulty and  economic hardship  .

“Most of the request I receive each time I come back to meet with my constituents is on medical ground and I have been paying medical bills running in million I have gone to hospitals to pay their bills because some of them after being discharged are not allowed to go home because of their inability to pay bills I pay that bills  and I now decided that seems this case is a general problem let me have a package where everybody will be captured and have access to medical care .

“Here today, we have so many departments of medicals being represented, even in the cancer area, as we just left the cancer area facility where they are being screened of cervical cancer, prostate cancer and all other health challenges that our people cannot afford to treat on their own .

“The program is continued because you can’t say this is the number you want to target. We will be pumping more funds to sustain this program. 

“we bulgeted 250 million naira, we will be putting in more funds because before now, we already have a foundation that helps people in need. so  I think it is one of my primary assignments to help people to survive. That is why we allowed it to open as many that come, we will attend to them no matter the case their presents, the one that cannot handle on this ground has already transferred to the teaching hospital.

“Some operations that were conducted yesterday were part of this program and some are in the mile hospital in the way of child delivery. These people also captured them in this scheme”, he stated.