Founder/Director of the foundation, Prince Ekunola Gbenga Abraham with some members of the organisation during their visit to the hospitals where they offset bills for some patients.
PEGA & Friends Foundation (P&FF), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has put smiles on the faces of some indigent patients who received medical treatment but were unable to meet the bills at various hospitals in Lagos and Ogun State. It paid their hospital bills and united them with their families.
The patients had stayed in the hospitals for between two and six months after their treatment due to lack of money to offset their medical bills.
They came from various parts of Lagos state as well as Ogun State and were in the children, surgery and orthopaedic wards of the hospitals. General hospital, Badagry, Ore-Ofe Private Hospital, Ilaro, Ogun State and Hephzibah homes in Badagry were some of the hospitals and homes visited by the foundation.
Another scene from the hospital visit and during the distribution of gifts to the less privileged.
The founder/Director of the foundation, Prince Ekunola Gbenga Abraham (PEGA), while addressing the management and patients at General Hospital Badagry, praised the hospital management for the care and the patients for their cooperation.
Ekunola revealed that the programme started since 2010 but was fully registered as an NGO in 2015. “With the support of friends, the programme had been sustained since then,” he said.
PEGA disclosed further that the foundation was focused at enhancing the quality of life of Nigerians by promoting health, socio-economic development and the status of vulnerable and disadvantaged women, children, youths and men in community and welfare, character management & rehabilitation programs for inmates.
Some of the food items distributed by the NGO and another scene during the distribution of foofstuffs.
He said, “We go round Nigeria to help the underprivileged in the society and this we have been doing over the years. To change our society and make the world a better place we must love, give and share no matter how small.”
The Director also revealed that many indigent patients were discharged through the intervention of the foundation, adding that they were released in Ore-Ofe Private Hospital Ilaro, Ogun State and General Hospital Badagry in Lagos State. Among the beneficiaries is an 8-days old baby that was abandoned at the road ride in Badagry who is currently being taking care of at the Badagry general hospital.
Oba Akran of Badagry, His Royal Majesty, De Wheno Aholu Menu Toyi 1 praised the foundation for its humanitarian service rendered to the indigent patients and the Badagry community and urged other individuals and organisations to emulate the gesture.
Responding, the Deputy Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Olatunde Bakare, praised the NGO for its generosity, saying that it had set a pace for others to follow.
The patients expressed their gratitude to the NGO for paying their hospitals bills. They prayed God to grant those behind the NGO their heart desires.
They prayed God to guide and protect the members of the Pega and friends foundation and as well reward them.
The foundation also visited Hephzibah homes in Badagry, where materials of different kind and food items were donated to the orphans.
Ekunola, confirmed the adoption of three children of late Madam Kemi Adepoju who died of cancer in Ibadan, recently.
As part of activities marking the annual get-together of the foundation, it has extended a hand of fellowship to the sick, the widowed and the orphaned as part of the foundation’s goals to alleviate poverty and improve living conditions by the distribution of different kind of food items to the aged and less privileges in different villages across the nation.
Other side attractions of the programme was the visitation of the Palace of Akra of Badagry, seaside, first two-storey building in Nigeria, and other sites such as the “Slave point of no return”, slave market, first church in Nigeria and many other places with a get-together party and general meeting to roundup the occasion.
