Easter: Group offers free medication to 270 indigent persons in Imo community

The Gospel Generals International, a group of Christian preachers, has offered free medical services to over 270 indigent persons in Naze, Owerri North council area of Imo, to mark Easter.

The group offered the free medication in an outreach it organised in Owerri, on Sunday.

Our correspondent reports that free eye checks, diabetes screening and heart rate tests as well as blood and sugar level diagnosis were carried out on beneficiaries of the outreach.

Speaking, one of the organisers of the outreach, Mr Patrick Endurance, said the beneficiaries were medically examined by experts before drugs were administered to them.

Endurance, a cleric, said the group had a focus on preaching the gospel of hope and giving hope to the hopeless through word and action.

He noted that the outreach, an annual ritual of the church was usually organised during the Easter celebrations as a way of promoting the significance of the season and the need to live healthy, righteous lives.

He said that the Church has been offering humanitarian service to the less-privileged across Asia and East Africa especially in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Somali and Rwanda.

He however thanked the Paul Iwuala foundation, a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) for providing logistics and other forms of support for the free eye care services.

This year, we are privileged to have a partnership with Pastor Paul Iwulo’s Foundation who took it upon himself to ensure that our community is served medically.

“As we preach the gospel of hope and love to the people, we also offer free medication as well as skill acquisition we are committed to community based service to enable them live healthily and overcome poverty.

He called on well to do people to firmly extend humanitarian service to the needy to enable them assuage hardship, sickness and disease, adding that the community will witness advancement of peace and good heath when everyone is economically and socially empowered.

One of the beneficiaries and indigene of Naze community, Joy Nze, said no money was taken from them for the medication and medical checks.

She thanked the organizers for the gesture and prayed God to make provisions for them to be able to sustain the humanitarian gesture.