By Chukwudi Nwauba :
Anambra Governor’s wife, Dr. Mrs Nonye Soludo has commissioned a state-of-the-art mammography centre at the General Hospital, Onitsha.
The facility was built by Total Energies Upstream Nigeria Limited, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and partners: Prime, SAPEPTRO and CNOOC, as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Projects.
A mammography centre is a medical facility where women can go for regular breast checks, as it regards cancer of the breasts and related tumors.
The newly-installed mammography machine at Onitsha General Hospital has the capacity to take up to one hundred and twenty examinations per day.
Commissioning the facility, Mrs. Soludo who was represented by the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Afam Obidike, said that the centre will help check one of the commonest causes of death among women.
The Governor’s wife who is a Cervical Cancer champion, assured that the facility would be affordable and urged women from 35 years of age and above to make good use of the centre, as she insisted that early detection is key to treatment and survival.
She commended Total Energies, NNPC and partners, for the project and assured them that it would be maximally used and properly maintained.
Earlier, the General Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility, Total Energies EP Nigeria, Mrs. Kenechi Esomeju, who joined through zoom, said that the project was borne out of the need to bridge the gap in maternal and child health, access to clean water, women empowerment and education, in line with the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals’ target.
The Chief Medical Director of General Hospital, Onitsha, Dr. Ebelechukwu Aniugwu, in her remarks, explained that the state government’s transparent and accommodating health policies have continued to attract development partners.
She thanked the donors, noting that as obstetrician gynecologists, she understood what the project meant to the state and women in particular.
The Information Officer reports from Ministry of Health, Anambra State
