CLEDD Nigeria Settles Medical Bills Of Indigent Patients

CLEDD Nigeria Ltd, an oil industry logistics and service company, has proved its commitment to partnering with meaningful health institutions in Akwa Ibom State, in order to deliver its corporate social responsibility (CSR) to indigent members of the society.

Extending her annual charity to poor patients on admission in Akwa Ibom public hospitals, Mrs. Lucy Ukoette, representing the CEO/Chairman of the firm, Chief Charles Ukoette, led a team of the firm’s top management to offset outstanding medical bills held against some indigent patients in some of the health institutions.

Scores of patients are, however, confirmed to have benefited from the humanitarian gesture, including those who underwent surgical procedures, childbirth delivery, and other ailments, but couldn’t meet the prevailing cost of such medical treatment.

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Making the charity presentation to Dr. Jeremiah Inyang-Okoro, the medical officer in charge of Mount Carmel Hospital, Akpautong, in Ibesikpo-Asutan Local Government, Mrs. Ukoette said the gesture was “meant to uplift the lives of affected persons and so bring hope and relief to beneficiaries during the season of joy and goodwill.”

She spoke words of encouragement to some of the patients, whom she met at admission wards and who were seen to be happy and relieved receiving the unexpected help.

At St. Luke’s Hospital, Anua, which is one of the prime medical facilities servicing Uyo, the Akwa Ibom capital, Rev. Fr. (Dr.) Gabriel Ekong, the medical administrator of the institution, received and lauded the CLEDD team for sustaining its regular charity and humanitarian outreach to the less privileged during the holiday season.