The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has spent N61 billion on intervention projects across Nigeria with over 154 million benefiting from the various interventions in the past five years, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer revealed on Monday in Akwa Ibom State.
Pastor Adeboye spoke during the inauguration of Enoch and Folu Adeboye Dialysis Center at Immanuel General Hospital, in Eket Local Government Area of the state, the latest of such interventions by the RCCG.
The respected cleric was represented by Pastor Idowu Iluyomade, Intercontinental Overseer, Christian Social Responsibility (CSR) of RCCG at the occasion.
“We have spent over N61 billion on intervention projects in Nigeria,” Adeboye said.
He noted that no fewer than 154 million people had benefited from the various intervention in the last five years.
He added that RCCG had 1,200 functioning dialysis machines in their health facilities across the country.
“The initial beneficiary states are Ogun, Lagos, Oyo, Ondo, Bauchi, Borno, Anambra, Enugu, Akwa Ibom and Abuja.
He noted that the centre commissioned in Eket had been equipped with three brand new dialysis machines, water treatment plant and 130 KVA generator.
“This dialysis center will be the 27th in the series of our specialised medical intervention; Intensive Care Units, dialysis centres, cancer screening centres, Primary
Health Centers donated by the Love Foundation,” he said.
He explained that the foundation had established intensive care centers in states including Lagos, Plateau, Ogun and Ondo.
“Today we are dedicating this dialysis centre and decision to invests in establishment of dialysis center all over the nation as part of the foundation’s initiative for the needy.
“We have 48,000 operating dialysis centers all over the nation and present in 197 nations of the world,” he said.
He lamented that the foundation had 225 centres of dialysis in the country, adding that yet, the numbers could not address the problem of 220 million people in the country.
Love Foundation is a charity arm of the Redeemed Christian Church of God involved in various intervention projects in the areas of Socials, Education, Health, Media, Business, Art and Culture, Governance and Sports.
He thanked Gov. Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom for siting the dialysis center in Eket in particular and Akwa Ibom at large.
Gov. Eno , who inaugurated the dialysis centre, said that similar dialysis centres would be established in each of the 10 federal constituencies in the state.
“I am directing the Commissioner for Health, with critical stakeholders, to ensure they provide in each federal constituency in the state a dialysis centre.
“Commissioner should guarantee me that between now till June 2024, all the 10 dialysis centers will be ready because we need to ensure that we get these facilities across to our people who have to travel too far to do dialysis,” the governor said.
Eno noted that his administration had invested heavily in Primary Health Centres, saying that for the additional centre being inaugurated today, the state government had already approved staff to be deployed to Immanuel General Hospital.
He explained that staff deployed to the hospital would be trained in the 10 federal constituencies in the state.
In his remarks, Prof. Augustine Umoh, the Akwa Ibom Commissioner For Health, explained that one of the ways to manage kidney ailments was through dialysis.
He said that the state government had dialysis machines in Ibom Specialist Hospital in Uyo and General Hospital at Away in Onna LGA.
Quadri Olaitan is a journalist and contributor to Freelanews.com, covering news, public affairs, and human-interest stories.
