BY VICTOR-AHIUMA-YOUNG

Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, the honourable minister of health, Captain Emmanuel Ihienacho, Hon. Minister of the Interior, during cancer screening of prison inmates in Kuje Prisons, Abuja.

GENERAL Overseer, Divine Faith Evangelical Mission International, DFEMI, Prophet Joseph Igbodo, has urged Nigerians to show love and care to psychiatric patients and other less privileged individuals in society.

Igbodo made the call while feting over 122 psychiatric patients at Ayo Ben Psychiatric Hospital, Agbor, in Ika South local government area of Delta State.

According to him, the call had become necessary to enable those affected to develop a deep sense of belonging which, he said, would ultimately enhance their healing (mental recovery) process.

Igbodo who is also Proprietor, Job Orphanage and Saint Stephen Widows Trust Organisation, in Agbor, implored the patients not to lose hope in life, adding that some people in the society still love them irrespective of their health challenges even as he promised to provide them with clothes soon.

Also speaking, Pastor Patrick Obuseh who quoted copiously from the Holy Bible, enjoined Christians and other members of the society to emulate Igbodo in order to give succour to the needy in the society. Responding, Proprietor of the psychiatric hospital,

Dr Ayo Ben who spoke through his wife, Christiana Ayo, commended the humanitarian gesture to the patients.

At a later ceremony, over 200 widows from various communities in Ika land were also feted. In a charge to the widows, Igbodo said Jesus Christ was their husband, and urged them not to lose hope.