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Free medical care in Noma children hospital, Sokoto

Dr. Samuel Abdul Ahovi

About 18 Kogi Indegenes; 7 of them Ebiras, are currently seeking Medical Care at Noma Children Hospital, Sokoto in Sokota state.

An NGO-run Hospital, Noma Children Hospital has currently invited a TEAM of Surgeons From Europe to come and work on about 170 patients, a routine excercise done quarterly. Having been with the hospital since 2006 as a student intern then, the Kogi state government has been sending patients mostly with conditions like Solid Tumours, Thyroid (Goitre), Burns, Cleft-lips and so on to the hospital and are mostly of reasonable number ranging from 20 to as high as 50 and a good number of them, Ebiras.

Though the hospital is doing a lot in working on these patients, sometime not all of them get worked upon and thus sent back home for future TEAM! Why am I writing all these? Ebira is a tribe in the country highly blessed with a lot of medical talents (Consultants & Professors alike) making great achievements in their respective bases. There is hardly a teaching hosptal in Nigeria without an Ebira of immense importance there yet, what I see in NOMA hospital, I think, is just a 'tip of the iceberg'.

Our health care services is in a deplorable state, our people dying everyday from preventable ailments yet, we are saving lives in other places! See complete story here
Little Hanifa burnt beyond recognition by Kerosene fireLittle Hanifa receiving treatment at Noma hospital, Sokoto
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  1. Terry SebastianWednesday, 8 April 2009 at 15:47:00 GMT+1

    thanks for the touching story. When I read stories about real people in Nigeria, it always inspires me to do something for the good of humanity,

    terry

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