Residents
of Ogbodo community in Isiokpo, Ikwerre Local Government Area of
Rivers State, especially those who had eye problem, celebrated this
year’s Christmas with joy and gratitude to God.
This followed the
arrival to the community few days before New Year of Miss Health
South-South, Queen Juliet Okoroafor (Miss Health South South) alongside
her ‘ICare Project’ team, which included opticians. The August visitors
were in the community to bring succor to those who had eye problems.
And
before the team left the community, 500 people who had various eye
defects were treated, while 200 eye patients went home with medicated
glasses.
The visit to Ogbodo came barely five months after Queen
Juliet’s coronation as Miss Health South-South, Since her coronation,
she and her team, have visited various
parts of the South-South region,
to sensitize the people on how to live a healthy life, as well as treat
those faced with various health challenges.
It was in the course
of her tour of towns and communities in the South-South region that she
first came to Ogbodo where she found out that so many people in that
community, particularly the aged ones, were afflicted with various
types of eye diseases.
Ogbodo Community is a community filled with several eye diseases.
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