The wife of Ebonyi state governor, Chief Mrs. Uzoamaka Nwifuru, Wednesday, said her office through her pet project, Better Health for Rural Women and Internally Displaced Persons Foundation (BERWO) has enrolled 4,078 pregnant women into health insurance.
She said the foundation also sponsored surgery of 300 scrotal hernia patients in the state.
Mrs. Nwifuru also enrolled 600 infants 0-5 years into healthcare.
The team lead BERWO, Prof. Nkechi Emma-Echiegu, disclosed this to journalists in Abakaliki.
Emma-Echiegu explaining the achievements of the Governor’s wife, said that BERWO enrolled 300 sickle cell warriors into health insurance and carried out hernia surgery on over 300 adult male and children.
“In the last two years, I must tell you, we’ve been able to do quite a lot in as much as it’s not even everywhere in the news.
Last year we were able to enroll 4,078 pregnant women into health insurance.
“We also enrolled 600 infants for the health instance, 0 to 5. Reason, we can be jubilating that we’ve enrolled pregnant women.
“Not now following up on what happens to these women after giving birth.
Did the children survive? Did they die.It’s a major issue and that’s why we had to enroll these 600 children to assess free care”.
“We also enrolled 300 sickle cell champions.
“We were able to perform some surgery for scrotal Hernia on over 300 male adults and children.”
She however, noted that the state government under BERWO foundation has a target of distributing 17,000 postnatal care items for pregnant and nursing mothers in rural communities under Baby Shower Initiative of Mrs Nwifuru.
Mrs. Emma-Echiegu also noted that BERWO empowered 60 youths in various skills.
“We were also able to empower children with functional skills. They learned skill on different traits we gave them.
Is one thing to train children into skills is another thing to give them startup kits.
“We bought different kits.
“They needed to start up on their own.
But I must tell you, you see this generation, a lot of work needs to be done.We are just doing the best we can.
“We did the skill training, then we did the computer training for 60 people and we gave them computers after the training because if you train and you don’t set up, it’s nothing.lWe gave them HP computers about 400,000 and above and they are using it” she said.