The MTN Foundation on Monday donated a mobile clinic to the Delta Government as part of its contributions to efforts of the state government to improve health care delivery.
Handing over the facility to the state government, Ms Nonny Ugboma, the Executive Secretary, MTN Foundation, said that the gesture was to provide ready access to maternal and child health care services.
Ugboma said the mobile clinic also had tips on prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases.
She said that Delta was one of the six states of the federation benefitting from the Foundation’s Y’ello Doctor Mobil Medical Intervention Scheme.
She listed other beneficiary states as Abia, Ogun and Taraba, while two others were from North Central and North-West geo-political zones.
“The MTN Foundation’s Y’ello Doctor Mobil Medical Scheme is just one of the many projects under the health portfolio of the MTN Foundation,” she said.
Ugboma said that the Foundation was also into eye sight restoration, sickle cell, community health screening, and dialysis projects.
Responding, Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan said that the MTN mobile clinic project would complement the state’s mobile hospital project.
Uduaghan said that one of the challenges facing the rural dweller was lack of access to health care and that was the reason his administration invested heavily on heath care.
“You are taking health care to the doorsteps of those who never knew that they would have such services; it matters a lot to them.
“You have dialysis project and we are interested in it because as you know, we have started kidney transplant.
“Many people now troop to Delta State because of their renal problems and a patient requires to be undergoing dialysis in readiness for a transplant
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