The team of ASA-USA worldwide medical team have arrived Anambra State for the 2015 free medical mission comprising medical experts in various from different and from different countries in the world.

The team is slated to be in the state to provide an eight-day medical service to six communities of the state.

Briefing newsmen before their departure for Oko in Orumba North Council Area which is their first port of call, the chairman of the Association, Dr. Nwachukwu Anakwenze, said they came in with drugs worth eight hundred thousand dollars, adding that ASA Worldwide this time around, came with a lot of welfare packages apart from health care delivery.

According to him, their members from South Africa are in the State to award scholarships to students at various levels of education who will be selected from the three senatorial districts.

Anakwenze further explained that there is a group among them who, came solely for the motherless babies homes in the state while some others came for agricultural programmes.

He listed the six benefiting communities as Oko, Abagana, Obosi, Ihembosi, Ozubulu and Oba.

In their separate speeches, Mr. Christian Onuorah from Anam in Anambra West Council Area, who is also the Vice President of ASA World Wide and Mrs. Ngozi Pama, from Ozubulu noted that their mission is to better the lives of Ndi Anambra from the blessings they received from God.

Mrs. Teresa Kemp Osinachi, a member of the group from Obosi and a historian who donated all the glasses for the mission, stressed that no country can develop without Diaspora impact, as government alone cannot develop the state.

•Photo shows Governor Obiano.

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