Delta state Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, yesterday presented N2.5 million to the parents of co-joined twins delivered recently at the Delta State Teaching Hospital, Oghara, for their upkeep and medical expenses, while awaiting the separation surgery.
Okowa presented of N2.5 million at the neonatal section, Delta State University Teaching Hospital (DELSUTH), Oghara, Ethiope West local government area of the state.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mordi Ononye, who represented Governor Okowa, said the “Governor promised to intervene and this is what has led to the cheque presentation and promised that more assistance will still come from government.”
Ononye said the Governor was committed to making the teaching hospital a place of excellence and promise that very soon massive renovation of the hospital will commence.
Expressing gratitude to the Governor for his kind gesture, the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr. Onome Ogueh, said the support of the Governor Okowa had been wonderful, adding that since assumption of office as CMD, the Governor had been very responsive to the requests of the Hospital.
He said the hospital would work with them to ensure that advanced health care services are effectively delivered in the hospital for the betterment of Deltans and residents in the state.
The parents of the co-joined twins, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Amaje, thanked the Governor for his financial assistant to them “at such a time like this since they do not have the financial capacity to foot the medical bills so far not to talk of the surgery that will be performed on their babies.”
They also thanked the health commissioner and the staff of the hospital for their various assistance of which they said “it is only God that can richly reward them.”