{"id":8113,"date":"2023-11-27T13:52:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T13:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=8113"},"modified":"2023-11-27T13:52:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T13:52:47","slug":"nigerians-in-north-america-donate-millions-in-medical-equipment-to-cross-river-state-phcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/11\/27\/nigerians-in-north-america-donate-millions-in-medical-equipment-to-cross-river-state-phcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians in North America Donate Millions in Medical Equipment to Cross River State PHCs”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A group of compassionate Nigerians residing in North America, operating under the sponsorship of the Ekoi Association of North America, has generously contributed medical equipment valued at millions of dollars to three Primary Healthcare Centers (PHCs) in different local government areas of Cross River State.<\/p>\n

The donation, part of the association’s medical outreach in Ogoja LGA of the State, includes complete hospital beddings, refrigerators, blood sugar testing machines, and blood pressure testing equipment, among other essential items.<\/p>\n

The three PHCs benefiting from this medical equipment donation are the Ikom Primary Healthcare Centre in Ikom, the Ogoja Healthcare Centre in Egbe, Ogoja, and the Yakurr Primary Healthcare Centre in Ugep, Yakurr LGA of Cross River State.<\/p>\n

The presentation of the medical equipment was carried out by the association’s president, Prof. Tony Agbeh. He emphasized that the initiative aims to contribute to the state’s development, reflecting the group’s commitment to making a positive impact.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

He said that the Ekoi sons and daughters in diaspora were of the view that the equipment would aid the medical practitioners in delivering medical healthcare to those seeking medical attention..<\/p>\n

Represented by his personal aide, Mr. Sonnie Okem, the association president decried the deteriorating state of medical facilities in the state, adding that their contribution stood as an intervention to cushion the effect of medical needs of indigent rural dwellers.<\/p>\n

The association president urged officers in charge of the health facilities to use the equipment and assist those with medical challenges that they can tackle with the equipment, urging the sick to take advantage by accessing the facilities.<\/p>\n

Receiving the items at Ogoja Health Centre, Egbe, representative of the Primary Health Care Coordinators, Mrs. Mary Egede, the community chairman, Mr. Joseph Egbe, the Clan Head of Egbe community, Buturo Thomas Agbeh, and the officer in charge of Health Centre Egbe, Mrs Fatima Offum, lauded the association for the show of love.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of compassionate Nigerians residing in North America, operating under the sponsorship of the Ekoi Association of North America, has generously contributed medical equipment valued at millions of dollars to three Primary Healthcare Centers (PHCs) in different local government areas of Cross River State. The donation, part of the association’s medical outreach in Ogoja […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8145,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113\/revisions\/8145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}