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BY SUNNY A. DAVID
The Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, Most Reverend Paulinus Ezeokafor has visited the sick as part of activities lined up for the celebration of his seventieth birthday anniversary.
The Bishop who began the journey on Tuesday, visited male and female surgical wards at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Amaku Awka, where he showered love, prayed and offset bills of some patients who found it difficult to leave after accessing medical care.
Speaking shortly after seeing the patient one on one, commended the health workers who took care of the patients, reminding them that their work is a vocation as it is not easy to look after the sick adding that their services require patience, commitment and love.
Bishop Ezeokafor noted that God has been faithful to him by keeping him healthy to attain seventy years and fifteenth year of his episcopacy, encouraging the patients to be hopeful that with their medications and prayers, they will be healed and he later presented them with gifts.
Responding, the Chief Medical Director, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital Amaku Awka, Dr. Joe Akabuike, thanked Bishop Ezeokafor for the bold step taken to care and show love to the sick, regretting that many spend so much money on burial ceremonies forgetting about the living.
Dr. Akabuike called on the affluent in the society to emulate the Bishop’s gesture by helping to offset the bills of the poor.
Appreciating the Bishop for offsetting their bills, Mrs.j Damatu Ahmed from Adamawa State and a nineteen-year-old Dennis Obayi from Benue State with spinal cord injury, thanked Bishop Ezeokafor for his benevolence in ensuring they go home after the hospital treatment, praying God to bless him more on his birthday and beyond.
