RCCG spends ₦61bn on intervention projects across Nigeria – Adeboye

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, says the church has spent more than ₦61 billion on intervention projects across Nigeria.

The Pastor stated this during the inauguration of Enoch and Folu Adeboye Dialysis Center at Immanuel General Hospital, in Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.

Represented by Pastor Idowu Iluyomade, the Intercontinental Overseer, Christian Social Responsibility (CSR) of RCCG, Adeboye said the centre had been equipped with three brand new dialysis machines, a water treatment plant, and 130 KVA generator.

“We have spent over ₦61 billion on intervention projects in Nigeria,” Adeboye said.

According to him, no fewer than 154 million people have benefited from the various interventions in the last five years. He added that RCCG had 1,200 functioning dialysis machines in their health facilities across the country.

“The initial beneficiary states are Ogun, Lagos, Oyo, Ondo, Bauchi, Borno, Anambra, Enugu, Akwa Ibom, and Abuja.

“This dialysis center will be the 27th in the series of our specialised medical interventions: intensive care units, dialysis centres, cancer screening centres, Primary Health Centers donated by the Love Foundation,” he said.

He explained that the foundation had established intensive care centers in states including Lagos, Plateau, Ogun, and Ondo.

“Today we are dedicating this dialysis centre and the decision to invest in the establishment of dialysis center all over the nation as part of the foundation’s initiative for the needy.

“We have 48,000 operating dialysis centers all over the nation and present in 197 nations of the world,” he added.

He lamented that although the foundation had 225 centres of dialysis in the country, adding that yet, the numbers could not address the problem of 220 million people in the country.

The General Overseer thanked the state Governor Umo Eno for siting the dialysis center in Eket in particular and Akwa Ibom at large. Gov Eno, who inaugurated the dialysis centre, said that similar dialysis centres would be established in each of the 10 federal constituencies in the state.

“I am directing the Commissioner for Health, with critical stakeholders, to ensure they provide in each federal constituency in the state a dialysis centre.

“Commissioner should guarantee me that between now till June 2024, all the 10 dialysis centers will be ready because we need to ensure that we get these facilities across to our people who have to travel too far to do dialysis,” the governor stated.

Eno noted that his administration had invested heavily in Primary Health Centres, saying that for the additional centre being inaugurated today, the state government had already approved staff to be deployed to Immanuel General Hospital.

He explained that staff deployed to the hospital would be trained in the 10 federal constituencies in the state. In his remarks, the Akwa Ibom Commissioner for Health, Prof. Augustine Umoh explained that one of the ways to manage kidney ailments was through dialysis.

He said that the state government had dialysis machines at Ibom Specialist Hospital in Uyo and General Hospital at Away in Onna LGA.