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Italians Arrive With Drugs, Doctors

This Day
Chinedu Eze
29 July 2007

A religous body from Rome, Italy, known as Association Opera Don Bonifacio Azione Verde has arrived Nigeria with huge quantities of drugs worth million of Naira and medical experts to treat about 3000 patients of various diseases in Imo state.

The body with members made up of devout Catholics are also in Nigeria to establish school where children could obtain free education.

Speaking to journalists at the Murtala Mohammed Airport on their way to Owerri, the leader of the religious group, Father Boniface Duru, said that the 25 volunteers who arrived in Nigeria with him came to render humanitarian service to Nigerian citizens.

Father Duru who said that the group has been visiting Nigeria to attend to the sick in the past identified diabetes and hypertention as major killer diseases in the country now, regretting that diabetes was an imported ailment that is now ravaging Nigerians added that this time the group will devote time to treat sick children.

He stated that they had the permission of the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) after the drug regulatory body had certified the drugs. "We have general practitioners, in the last five years we discovered that the level of sickness and the type of sickness, so what we do is to bring in different specialists and we also look for more attention for the children we will bring in pediatricians. We discovered a lot of diabetes in Nigeria; we discovered that there are a lot of hypertensive patients in Nigeria".

He disclosed that over N25 million had already been expended on their humanitarian project in Nigeria.

"As of now we are on a Journey of hope, we do it by this time of the year, but we are already working on a very big project in Imo state, we are building a poly-functional centre in the state, including a primary school, a secondary school, and there will be a clinic with other activities and we have actually concluded some of the buildings as you can see from the leaflet we distributed to you"

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