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From Obinna Odogwu, Awka
Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, yesterday inaugurated a N600 million psychiatric hospital and old people’s home built by Seraphic Homes Foundation, a non-profit charity organisation set up by the Zion Prayer Movement Outreach (ZPMOM) under the leadership of its Spiritual Director, Evangelist Chukwuebuka Anozie Obi.
The hospital, located in Aguleri community, Anambra East Local Government Area of the state, is designed to provide completely free psychiatric care to individuals battling mental illnesses.
This comes barely five months after the evangelist opened a gigantic Orphanage and Old People’s Home in Mgbirichi, Owerri, Imo State.
The organisation said that a comprehensive care including diagnosis, treatment, medication, rehabilitation, accommodation, and welfare would be provided to patients all at no cost to them or their families at the facility.
Evangelist Obi, in his remarks, said that the initiative was his childhood vision and that the plan was to touch lives across the country.
“This hospital will start functioning fully from next month. We are going to have four vehicles going everywhere in Anambra. Anywhere we see a mad person, we’ll pick them up and bring them here straight.
“This is my childhood vision. I have travelled to so many parts of the world. You cannot see a mentally-challenged person roaming the streets in the western world. It is only in this part of the world,” he stated.
Obi said that having completed this one and earlier done a similar project in Imo State, his next move would be to Enugu, Ebonyi, Abia, Rivers and other parts of the country.
In his speech, Soludo commended the evangelist for the project, saying that the government would support it fully.
Based on the foundation’s request, the governor promised to construct the road leading to the hospital and also connect it to the national grid.
Meanwhile, Seraphic Homes Foundation revealed that the clinic is Nigeria’s first ever free psychiatrist hospital.
It said that this grand opening marked the beginning of a new chapter in the country’s healthcare and social support system where love, faith, and compassion complement medical science to transform lives.
