Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting
The Chairman Managing Director of Lee Engineering Group and Allied Companies Ltd and founder, Agbonjagwe Leemon Ikpea Foundation, Chief Dr Leemon Agbonjagwe Ikpea, has laid the foundation of a 62 bed modern health facility in Ewatto.
Addressing his home town people in Ewatto in Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo State, Dr. Leemon Ikpea, said he was driven by the passion to help his people having been blessed by God.
Ikpea said it occurred to him that in his own home town, there is no good health facilities that could take care of the health needs of his people and that building one for them will reduce the burden they have to bear in seeking for medical services in the neighbouring cities or towns.
Dr. Ikpea added that the modern health facility that is sole funded by him is going to be equipped with the state-of-the-art facilities and with an administrative block and theatre.
“I am laying a foundation of a modern health centre here in Ewatto. It is going to be having 62 beds and administrative block too.
“I know for sure that when this project is completed, it is going to solve the problem faced by my people here in the community.
“They will no longer be traveling to distance places to seek for medical attention but they will have it here.
“And by the time this project is completed here, it will open up this community. People from other neighbouring cities and towns will come here for their health needs.
“It will open up this community because people will like to come here and build hotels and other things that will make this community more develop than as it is now”, Ikpea said.
He appealed to the people of the community to provide a friendly environment for those working on the project in order for them to complete it in record time.
The business magnet also called on his people to always put him, his family and the country in their prayers so that everything will work out as planned.
On the part of the contractor, Surveyor Anthony Igini, he said the building which is going to be having children, male, female, maternity, and emergency wards making about 62 beds, will be completed within the space of eight months.
Present at the ground breaking ceremony were Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and his wife, the Medical Director, Irrua Specialist Hospital, Professor Reuben A. Eifediyi, HRH Osagie Ikhumhen JP, the Onojie of Ewatto Kingdom.
Others were, HRH Ehizojie Abumere II, the Onojie of Ekpoma Kingdom and HRH Ehizojie Aluojierior II, the Onojie of Igueben.