The need for well-meaning individuals to impact lives in one way or the other by contributing their quota to ensure that the people have access to basic amenities has been brought to the fore.
The Chief Whip of Oshimili North Legislative Arm and the Councillor representing Okpanam DISIEC ward 12, Hon. Jeffery Mordi stated this in his Ogbeowelle country home, Okpanam when a Civil Society Organization on Malaria Control, Immunization and Nutrition (ACOMIN) paid him an advocacy visit.
Mordi said that there was always a reward in giving back to the society, assuring that he would continue to render selfless service to humanity.
While saying that he shared the pains the staff and users (patients) of Ogbe-Obi Comprehensive Healthcare Centre had been going through in the past five years without electricity supply, Mordi promised to pay the electricity bill of about N500,000 before the end of August this year to ensure power reconnection in the facility.
He reminded the good people of Okpanam community that the healthcare centre would improve its healthcare services when the power supply was restored to the centre, just as he said that there should be collective efforts to make the facility conducive and functional.
Mordi, who appreciated ACOMIN for inspiring the community to take ownership of their healthcare facilities, recalled the key role played by himself and other councillors as well stakeholders in the community including the former Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Chief Patrick Ukah to ensure that the Oshimili North Local Government Council led by Hon. Innocent Esenwezie intervened in the Obodogba healthcare centre .
Earlier in their separate remarks, the Executive Director in charge of rural and riverine community healthcare facilities for ACOMIN, Engr. Honesty Omagbemi and the Program Officer of ACOMIN for Oshimili North, Mrs. Joy Nwankwo told the councillor that the essence of the advocacy visit was to interface with community leaders and stakeholders like him to see how they could improve healthcare facility at Ogbe Obi axis of the community.
They said that the healthcare centre was in dire need of attention, stressing that the facility had been disconnected from power supply for over five years.
