Foundation, Resident Doctors offer free medical outreach in Enugu

Over 10, 000 indigent residents in Enugu State received free medical care by Paul Basil Iloegbouba Foundation (PBIF), to improve their heathy living.

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The foundation carried out the exercise in collaboration with the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), Teaching Hospital, in Enugu.

The event titled: “Enugu Mega Medical Outreach” was held at Okpara Square, Enugu.

The Founder of the foundation, Mr Paul Iloegbouba, said they were moved by the current hardship in the country that was making many poor people in Enugu not to access healthcare services.

According to him, a lot people in the state are going through pain while some people cannot afford their hospital bills.

“We try to see how we can help the poor masses who cannot afford to go to hospital; we try to provide for them through medical means of free medical treatment,” he said.

Iloegbouba said there were different medical personnel that took care of malaria/typhoid, minor surgery, therapist, eye check/free glasses and many other ailments.

“Basically, we are handling almost all general treatment when it comes to medical issues except deep surgical,” he said.

The foundation started its free medical treatment since 2014.

“We have been doing this in our own capacity, we have moved from local government to local government. We have been in Udi in Enugu, Ebonyi, Abia and some other states.

“Today we are doing something we have not done before, and today will make it 15th medical outreach we had done since inception which is running into millions of Naira.

“We have a lot of individuals supporting what we are doing and that is why we have gone to these extent and as an Engineer.

“I drive my passion for the work some years back when I saw some people that cannot afford medical treatment.

“Life is not about how much cash, cars or houses but the lives we are able to save and it makes sense when we touch people’s life,” Iloegbouba said.

Dr Chukwunoso Ofonere, President of the Association of Residents Doctors, ESUT Teaching Hospital, said the association partnered PBIF to help the people of Enugu State especially the indigent ones to access healthcare.

Ofonere, who is a Senior Registrar in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, ESUT Teaching Hospital, described the outreach as specialist care for Enugu people.

He said that as a doctor, their main aim was to assist people with quality and affordable healthcare.

The wife of Iloegbouba and Co founder of PBIF, Mrs Favour, explained that the exercise was to impact and save lives, adding that, it had been their passion seeing people celebrating Christmas in good health.

“This is what pushed us into putting it now instead of January or any other month and in a rough estimate, we have spent more than N50 million since inception, treating people free of charge,” she said.