By Ovat Abeng
No few than 600 women in Anambra State have benefitted from a three-day free medical services offered by a humanitarian group, Anambra Women Union Incorporated, Chicago, United State of America (USA).
The free medical programme, held respectively, on Monday across the three Senatorial District of the State that featured; Breast Cancer awareness campaign, Breast self-examination, registration of vulnerable women for mammogram tests and enrollment of the beneficiaries into the Anambra Health Insurance Agency/Scheme (ASHIA), was done in collaboration with the Anambra Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Welfare
In her opening speech at the programme held at Prof Dora Akunyili Women Development Center Awka, the President, Anambra Women Union Incorporated, Chicago, USA, Lady Sofia Ekwensi Ojukwu, said the free services also aimed to educate the women on how to prevent breast and cervical cancers.
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According to Ojukwu who was represented by a staff of the Women Affairs Ministry, Mrs Blessed Nwek, said, “Health is one of the top priority areas of the Union and which is why the Union is offering the free services to the most valuable women in Anambra State.
“We are doing this as part of corporate social responsibility to our people especially, the less privilege ones and to support the state government’s continuous advocacy for a healthy living in Anambra.
“We have equally enrolled the six hundred beneficiaries into the Anambra Health Insurance Agency/scheme (ASHIA) along with the annual payment of N12,000 per each.
“Our goal as women body, is to increase the capability of the State Government through the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Welfare to empower Anambra women in all sectors of human existence.
Ojukwu commended the State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Hon Ify Obinabo and the ASHIA management team for their continues commitment towards the welfare of Ndi-Anambra.
The beneficiaries in their seperate remarks, while thanking the organisers for the kind gesture, promised to extend the message acquired during the training to their various communities.
The event also featured participants’s self-breast touching examination test and sensitization lecture tittle; “Turning awareness action to end breast cancer, deliver by Prof Chukwudi Okani, a Consultant Pathologist from Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Igbariam Anambra State.
