Ogah settles hospital bill of 26 indigent patients, recounts how he lost son

The lawmaker representing Ikwo/Ezza South federal constituency, Chinedu Ogah Tuesday said he lost his first son for lack of oxygen in an Ebonyi hospital.

This is as he settles the hospital bill of 26 indigents patients to the tone of 3.5 million Naira.

Ogah disclosed this at Alex Ekwueme Federal Teaching Hospital (AE-FETHA) Abakaliki, during the activities making his 46th birthday celebration.

He explained that he lost the son when the hospital now FETHA 2 was still “Abakaliki Specialists Teaching Hospital”.

Ogah while speaking to patients and the Chief Medical Director of FETHA Prof. Emeka Onwe-Ogah said, “We are here today to contribute a little to help some patients who are unable to catarrh for their treatment. We have a list of some patients and their bill is about 4 points something million. But the CMD in partnering with us gave us a discount and we are paying 3,596,000 (three million five hundred and ninety-six thousand). We have eleven patients in Feta 1 and fifteen patients in fetha 2, among these people their views are tabulated from 53 to 300 thousand. All the bills are hereby paid.

“We want to assure you, being a member and a committee member in Health Services at the National I want to assure that I will bring intervention to this hospital. We want to assure you that this hospital is going to be integrated with solar light so that the patients will be taken care of so that the blood bank will be functional, the CCT Scan will be functional, and the oxygen will be functional. I was a victim because I lost my first son at FETHA 2 when it was still a Specialist hospital under the state because of lack of oxygen.

“I want to appeal to everybody even if you don’t like me go and get your PVC. The PVC is your power with it you can negotiate with big men and get anything you want.

Responding, Onwe-Ogah commended the lawmaker for being there for the institution and the indigent persons.

“Just like he had said, this very year he told me the contract will soon be awarded for work on the internal roads of the hospital both in FETHA 1 and 2, he showed me the where it was captured it os not a hearsay and we hope that in no distant time work will commence. He has been doing so much when I ran to him in Abuja he took me from one office to another to make sure that our problem is solved. One thing we have decided to be doing here in other to save the women is that any woman that gave birth to twin especially triplets as long as she is from the country will be delivered free”.

. Ogah who did not only visit the hospital but the Old People home, motherless babies home, the Artisans, and the Correctional center among others impacted their lives.

At the Abakaliki Correctional  Centre, Ogah said, “Being here does not mean that your own has finished, it is a moment of trial, it is for you to redefine your feature. I was once here for six months for an offense I don’t know, but when I came in here I learned a lot of things, I made new friends, and this place made me understand different kinds of offenses.

“I’m here to encourage you not to be depressed but have forgiveness of mind. Mandela was in the prison for many years and came out to become the president of South Africa, most of the great leaders you know today were once in the prison, I was here for the offense I don’t know but when I came out I became a great person. It is good to have a history, but you need to change to become a great person, just tell yourself the truth and work for a better feature”.