Canada-Based Doctor Enhances Healthcare in Anambra

Dr Charles Kene Ojukwu, a Canada-based medical doctor, donated medical equipment to the Primary Health Centre at Christ the King Parish in Abatete, Anambra State, to support maternal and newborn healthcare. The donation, made through the Charles Kene Ojukwu Initiative Foundation, included an autoclave machine, suction machine, cardiac monitor, oxygen cylinder with trolley, delivery bed, digital fetal Doppler, nebuliser machine, diagnostic ultrasound machine, and phototherapy machine, along with labour and minor surgical equipment.

The equipment was blessed by the Archbishop of Onitsha and Metropolitan of the Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province, Most Rev. Valerian Maduka Okeke, on October 11. The initiative aims to improve access to essential maternal and newborn healthcare services, enabling pregnant women to access ultrasound scans and assisting healthcare workers in providing phototherapy for newborns with jaundice.

The donation also included repainting the health centre, contributing to efforts to reduce maternal and child mortality in Abatete and surrounding communities.