DAME EDITH OKOWA COMMISSIONS SICKLE CELL CLINIC AT CENTRAL HOSPITAL AND WATER BORE HOLE PROJECT AT THE NIGERIA PRISONS KWALE.
The First Lady Delta
State and founder of 05 Initiative, Dame Edith Okowa has commissioned fully
equipped state of the art Sickle Cell Clinic and renovated labour ward at the
Central Hospital, Kwale, Ndokwa West Local Government Area of the State with
the aim of bringing succour to sufferers of sickle cell anaemia. The 05
Initiative is to replicate this project in all Central Hospitals across the
Delta State.
Dame Okowa described
the 05 Initiative as a humanitarian programme which draws its inspiration from
the Biblical book of Matthew 25: 35-36 with an obligation of “Changing our
world, one person at a time.
She said the aim of
the 05 Initiative is to establish a one-stop Sickle Cell Clinic at all Central
Hospitals in the State ahead of the establishment of a referral centre in
Asaba, the Delta capital.
The First Lady and
founder of 05 Initiative, Dame Edith Okowa also commissioned a water bore hole
project built by her Non-Governmental Organizations 05 Initiative at the Nigerian
Prisons Kwale.
Speaking during the
commissioning, Dame Edith Okowa said she built the water bore hole to enable the inmates enjoy potable water, adding
that the gesture was part of the determination of the 05 Initiative to add
value to the lives of the less privileged, just as she admonished the inmates
to always look up to God as their only helper.
Some of the prison inmates
praised Dame Edith Okowa for her contributions and called on other well-meaning
Deltans and Nigerians to emulate her good gestures so as to make life better
for the needy and downtrodden.
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