As the floods receed, the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has donated relief materials to its host communities of Gbarain/Ekpetiama clans in the Yenagoa Local Government Area
The Oil Multinational Company also carried out free medical out-reach programme for the citizenry of the communities tagged Garain/Expetiama cluster of SPDC host communities .
The donation and the distribution was facilitated by a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Centre for Peace, Development and Child Welfare.
Speaking during the official presentation of the relief materials and Medical outreach programme, the Çordinator of the NGO, Mr. Inemo Samiama said the medical outreach was to check the health of the people considering the effect the devastating flood may have caused to them .
He said the relief materials would have been distributed during the period of the flood but was hindered by the destruction of the east-west road that was cut-off as a result of the ravaging flood.
Receiving the items on behalf of the communities, the Chairman of the Gbarain/Ekpetiama Cluster Board, Mr. Profit Bibobara thanked SPDC for the gesture, adding that the materials would go along way in assuaging and mitigating the effects of the flood on the people following the damage caused by the devastating flood.
He promised to ensure equitable distribution of the items to the affected communities.
Items donated include rice, beans, garri, noddles, oil, foams, clothes etc.
Highlights of the event was free distribution of drugs, eye-glasses and treatment of different ailments by a tream of medical experts, who treated aged , women and children.
Some beneficiaries who spoke to our correspondent thanked the SPDC for the free medical outreach and the relief materials, noting that it would
mitigate against the effects of the flood.
Mr. Bideiwari Ajoko said the medical out-reach has afforded him the opportunity to check his health status and get free drugs to check his high blood pressure.
In similar vein Mrs. Ebinepiri Okoko also thanked the SPDC for the free drugs, she was given after diagnosis she wanted the SPDC to extend the period so that more of the citizens would benefit from the medical outreach.
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