The Chairman of Igbo Etiti Local Government Area, Enugu State, Hon. Malachy Agbo, has visited Mrs. Oluchukwu Ezeugwu who was recently delivered of quadruplets, two boys and two girls, in Ohodo.
He visited the woman and her three surviving babies at the ESUT Teaching Hospital, Park Lane, Enugu, where they were receiving further medical attention.
As a result of some complications, they were moved to the tertiary health institution from the Bishop Shanahan Memorial Hospital, Nsukka, where they were earlier taken to after the babies were born premature at their home with the assistance of an Ohodo Health Centre midwife.
The woman was said to have gone into sudden labour which made it impossible for her to reach the health centre where she had been receiving ante-natal care.
Agbo, on arrival, visited the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Gabriel Njeze and was later led to see the children in the Newborn Intensive Care unit by the consultant in charge, Dr Uchenna Ekochi.
Looking at the babies swaddled in the incubators, the visibly-excited and appreciative Chairman thanked the doctor and his team for all the efforts in sustaining the children.
He regretted the loss of one of the babies, Ikechukwu, urging the doctor and his team to ensure the remaining three, Destiny, Ruth and Esther, remained in good shape.
The consultant while promising they would not relent in their efforts however noted the babies needed special medications that were way beyond the reach of the indigent couple.
He said this, in addition, to the upkeep of their mother were the immediate needs to be addressed.
The Chairman, therefore made a donation of an undisclosed sum of money to assist the couple.
Agbo also pleaded with public spirited individuals and corporate bodies to come to the aid of Mr. and Mrs. Ezeugwu, noting that even after the babies might have been successfully treated and discharged, there were still huge hospital bills to be settled in addition to their subsequent upkeep with their mother who would obviously not be able to naturally nurse all three babies unaided.
Agbo also used the opportunity to thank the government of Enugu State for providing robust medical programmes in the state, more especially in the rural areas, which he urged parents to tap from.
Her husband, Mr. Peter Ezeugwu, on his part, still looking sober and somehow in shock, thanked the Chairman for receiving him earlier in his office at Ogbede and his donations.
He prayed God would keep guiding him, to continue to be a leader that truly responds to the needs of his people as he had done with him.
He also thanked the medical team noting that many of them had gone beyond the call of duty to ensure the well-being of the babies and their mother.
He also used the opportunity to ask people to come to his aid as it was absolutely impossible to raise the three children and their two older siblings without help.
He said they were thinking this pregnancy would have been their third and the last. But as it were, God has other plans as so rather than three, he had all five children to cater for.
Those that accompanied Hon. Agbo to the hospital included Hon. (Mrs) Amuche Nnamani, the Supervising Councillor for Education / Gender and Social Welfare, and some of his aides.
