Ilesa (Osun); General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, and his wife, Pastor Folu Adeboye, on Thursday donated a dialysis centre to the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC) Wesley Guild, Ilesa.
The facility, donated to mark Pastor Folu Adeboye’s 77th birthday, was inaugurated by the Governor of Osun. Sen. Ademola Adeleke of Osun.
Adeleke commended Adeboye and his wife for their consistent kind gestures in the education and health sectors, as well as their humanitarian efforts, all of which, he said, had touched the lives of many across the world.
According to him, kidney-related ailments have been on the rise in the country, with many patients who cannot afford the treatment.
He appreciated the general overseer and his wife for filling the gap, thus bringing hope to the hopeless and help to the helpless.
The governor, represented by the Commissioner for Health, Jola Akinsola, urged other organisations, NGOs, philanthropists, and other kind-hearted individuals to support the hospital.
He appealed to the hospital management to ensure the proper maintenance of the centre.
Adeleke pledged that the state government would collaborate with the Federal Government to ensure that the centre was not closed down and that necessary consumables were provided.
Earlier, the RCCG Continental Overseer, Pastor Johnson Odesola, had described Adeboye as a pathfinder who not only preached the gospel but also demonstrated it.
Odesola, who represented Pastor Adeboye, said that the general overseer had been showing care to several people to ensure their welfare and well-being.
He appealed to the country’s leaders, who were still travelling abroad for medical attention, to emulate Adeboye by prioritising the health sector for the betterment of the general public.
Earlier, Pastor Kayode Pitan, the Assistant National Christian Social Responsibility Coordinator (CSR) of the RCCG, stated that the church’s various charity activities were being handled by “His Love Foundation” (HLF), an arm of the church.
Pitan, represented by Assistant CSR Coordinator, Pastor Detola Akinyemi, stated that the dialysis centre would be the 13th to be donated by RCCG across the country.
He said that a total of 207,761,297 people had benefited from the facilities in the last eight years, with over N110 billion committed to the projects.
According to him, the centre has three dialysis machines, beds, one water reverse osmosis purification system, one 30 KVA generator and air conditioners.
In his remarks, the Chief Medical Director of OAUTHC, Prof. John Okeniyi, expressed appreciation to God for granting everyone the opportunity to witness the occasion, congratulated Mrs Adeboye, and thanked her and her husband for their donation to the centre.
Okeniyi said that the centre would serve patients across the six states in the South-West and beyond, while complementing the facilities already in place at the hospital for the treatment of kidney diseases.