Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, has said a mechanism has been put in place by the administration to deliver quality health care to people of the state.
The governor expressed optimism that when this is ready, the populace would enjoy subsidised, affordable health care services.
He spoke at the inauguration of the Jennifer Etuh Medical Centre, Umunoha, built by the Jennifer Etuh Foundation, a non-governmental organisation in Umunoha, Mbaitoli council area of Imo, State.
The foundation, established in 2021, has carried out 57,939 medical interventions involving 22,785 patients across Nigeria.
Uzodinma commended the foundation for extending generosity to Imo State by making the state a choice destination for the medical centre which is one of six in the country, one in each geopolitical zone.
He enjoined well-meaning Imo indigenes to “experience the joy of organised philanthropy” in replicating the gesture of the foundation.
Vice chairman of the foundation, Pastor Sarah Omakwu, extolled the virtues of the late Mrs Etuh and described the husband’s sustenance of her legacies as proof that good men still exist.
Another preacher, Pastor Yakubu Mamman, advised Nigerians to exhibit faith through reconciliation with God so that their legacies would be recalled when they are no more, just like those of Mrs Etuh.
Chairman of the foundation, Dr. Thomas Etuh, said the construction of medical centres across all geopolitical zones of the country was in keeping with his late wife’s death wish for uplifting helpless Nigerians.