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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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