Our Story

The founder, Dr Ngozi E. Erondu MD, PhD was born in Umuocheala, a small village in Abia state, Nigeria. His father was a headmaster while his mother was a nurse midwife who established the first maternity home (Ngozi Maternity Home) in the community in 1953. The death of Dr Erondu’s mother in 1992 left a huge void in maternal and childcare services in the community. Over the years, Dr. Erondu and his pharmacist wife (Dr Mrs. Ngozi Ogbonna-Erondu) have engaged in, and supported, medical missions to several communities across Abia state, Nigeria. In 2022, they together with their four children (Dr Mgbechi Erondu, Dr Chioma Erondu, Dr Alozie Erondu and Dr Ihuoma Erondu) began to rebuild and expand the original maternity home into a full-fledged hospital to serve not just the community, but the entire local government area with a population of nearly 135,000 people.

Following a careful assessment, they recognized that the provision of accessible, affordable, comprehensive, and quality healthcare services to underserved communities requires both in-hospital services and in-community services. Examples of the latter include public health campaigns, childhood immunization drives, as well as disease prevention & awareness education. Additional activities include providing healthcare services to outlying communities by sending teams on medical missions, training different cadres of healthcare workers especially to serve/work in their local communities, and attracting foreign based healthcare professionals (especially Nigerians in the Diaspora) to use the new hospital as a base for their medical missions in the state.

For this noble endeavor to be successful, a reliable and sustainable funding source is needed.