Over one hundred (100) adolescent boys between the ages of two (2) and seven (7) have benefited from free circumcision at the Pa Makiu Memorial Health Facilities in Kenema City. The boys that benefitted from the free medical services were mostly kids brought from villages within the eastern region whose parents or relatives can ill afford to pay for their circumcision at this difficult time of the year.
Traditionally, boys are often circumcised at tender age; from seven days of birth, but for several reasons, the operation may be delayed. It is always a ceremony that mothers look up to for their male children; hence the mass and free operation undertaken by the Joe Moiba Foundation came in handy when lack of finance and the ready availability of medical practitioners are inherent problems in that part of the country, especially in this inclement rainfall.
The exercise lasted for one month, spanning from the 21st June to the 21st July, 2024.
The month-long operations formed part of programme of events lined up to mark the opening of the Pa Makiu Memorial Health Facilities at No, 1 Makiu Street in Kenema City. The facilities are being managed by the Joe Moiba Foundation of Dr. and Mrs. JGL Moiba who are household names in the south-east for their philanthropy and care for the vulnerable. With its operations sprung from Kenema, the Foundation has provided hope for many over the period.
Speaking on the project in the short and modest ceremony, Dr. Joseph Gaima Lukulay Moiba said the gesture was not new. “My wife and I have been in the business of helping people for long.
That is also the objective of this Foundation and as a philanthropist, clergyman and politician, I think what matters most is working to salvage our people., he said; recalling that they have been rendering services of other humanitarian nature for long now.ti the applause of the aidience, Dr. Moiba opined that they will be doing more free-of-cost treatments to the needy and vulnerable people at the health facilities. “This is my own way of helping our people,” he reiterated.
The Circumcision exercise commenced on Friday 21st June, the day the Makiu Memorial Health Facilities were made open to the public.
The clinic is named after late Dr. Alfred Makiu whom he said they would remain to remember. “We can never forget the selfless service he rendered in the field of medicine to the people of Kenema, District” the CEO went on; saying the Joe Moiba Foundation remains committed to preserving Dr. Makiu’s legacy.
A special Communion Service was held in prayer of the late man during the opening ceremony which was graced by eminent personalities, including stakeholders of the City Council under which purview are primary health care facilities.
Speaker after speaker lauded the Initiative of the Foundation.
The beneficiary parents said they could not bless Dr. Moiba and wife more for such a generous and selfless gesture in time of need
The Pa Makiu Memorial Health Facilities provide clinical and laboratory services with a cost effective drug store.
