ADEZE OJUKWU, Freetown

Nigerian Christian doctors and health professionals have stressed the need to boost healthcare services in West African countries.

The health experts, under the aegies of Nigeria Christian Graduate Fellowship (NCGF) promised to offer free medical services to Sierra Leonean citizens.

They spoke weekend in Freetown during a dinner hosted by the Nigerian High Commissioner, Ambassador Godson Echegile, to appreciate the self-less services of the international fellowship in the West African region.

The Nigerian envoy said ‘we feel highly elated by your invaluable service to humanity and Sierra Leone in Particular. On behalf of Nigerian Government, we say a big thank you for this onerous service. You have rendered this service without asking for money or reward and for this we are most grateful.’

According to him, the activities of NCGF are a true expression of the biblical injunctions ‘Love your neighbour as yourself and do unto others as you would want them to do unto you.

He continued: ‘You have left your comfort zones to come and render selfless services voluntarily. This love that you have shown through your hospital and educational missions in Nigeria and abroad can only be rewarded by God and not any man nor government.’

he appealed to the team to support medical training and services at college of Medical and Allied Health Services (COMAHS), Freetown and Lunsar Hospital Catholic Hospital Port Loko District.

The group arrived the country last week on a none-paid voluntary medical and Christian service in several communities in the country.

Head of the delegation, Dr. Godwin Uwaoma, in his remarks at the occasion, said they came at the invitation of Sierra Leonean citizens to provide free treatment to patients’.