Mr & Mrs Johnny & son Iboro

The following is excerpted from Nigerian Health Worker Iboro received by Pastor Doug Weiser, WELS liaison to Nigeria

Dear Etubom Douglas Weiser,

I am delighted to email you once again. How is your family doing? I hope all is well with you and every other member of WELS? Thank God for his divine protections and blessings upon us all.

Obviously, the main aims and objectives of our childbirth clinic is to save lives. God  gave us the foresight to build and have Johnny Birth Centre in order to prevent children from dying (becoming extinct like cockroach), pregnant women from having still birth and children from dying of improper methods of circumcision (circumcising babies enthusiastically from death). Proper circumcision is to prevent bleeding, the inability to bear children when they grew up, and contracting various kinds of diseases.

Formerly, people in the community and its environs were suffering from improper treatment by traditional healers and native doctors. But as God will have it, Mrs. Johnny is looking forward to having a well equipped Childbirth Centre through the help and support of WELS Humanitarian Aid Committee to salvage children and pregnant women from all kinds of untimely death caused by the traditional healers.

Last week, a child was brought to my mother’s clinic for circumcision. On arrival my mother inquired from the mother of the baby why she allows her baby to stay up to a month before circumcision. The reply was that, the baby was taken to one of the traditional healers where the mother paid enormous amount of cash, but the child bleeds for a month. By now the foreskin of the penis has covered over again as if nothing was done. First and foremost, my mother conducted test only to diagnose that the baby was suffering from measles as a result of improper circumcision. Treatment and circumcision was done to him in the proper medical way. I can testify that the baby is up and doing well now.

On Tuesday this week, a similar case was brought, but this one was due to the inability to provide a fat sum of cash required of them in the hospital. But voluntarily, Mummy did her best. She provided numerous treatments to the mother, especially malaria, and child delivery was done in the Johnny clinic.

We advise every patient to always pray for more blessings for WELS for their kind gesture. This has always been Mrs. Johnny’s intention (has always been the order of the day) to reduce prices and make medical care affordable to as many with low financial background as possible.

Long live WELS! Long live Johnny Birth Centre.

In God we trust.
Engr. Iboro Johnny