By David-Chyddy Eleke
It’s 8:30pm, and I’m just leaving Princeton Specialist Hospital and Orthopedic Centre, Awka after a beautiful Carol of Nine Lessons, organized by the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Amaechi Nwachukwu who is also my pastor at Rhema Church, Awka.
Dr Nwachukwu and his entire lovely family were at the event, which involves his friends, family, staff and patients. His wife, Dr Chinyere and son, Princeton are among those who read lessons are the beautiful event.
One thing is evident however, saving life is a burden which anyone who is truly under the hippocratic oath can not afford not to honour (though there are cases of doctors who do not).
Dr Amaechi was savouring a beautiful Christmas rendition of “Mary’s boy child, Jesus Christ” from a special choir he had arranged, when suddenly, I started seeing certain movements.
Some of the staff were making scurried movements that showed that frantic efforts to save life. As the medical staff moved in different directions, though silently, I couldn’t help but notice that the movements were not for nothing.
Not long after, I saw relatives also a sick woman carrying long faces, but the woman herself was quietly wheeled through a separate staircase to the ward and suddenly, the scurried movements stoped. Then Dr Amaechi Nwachukwu quickly joined the event again as if nothing happened.
I have been in church some days and noticed him arrive late, and enquiries usually showed he spent the whole night opening up human bodies; performing surgeries, and in the morning he is in church again to deliver the gospel.
At sometimes, you’ll see him scurry off the stage after preaching, and the destination will be to attend to emergency patients.
What was heartwarming in today’s was that as he returned to the event, ‘re-arranged’ himself as if nothing happened and announced that: “This Carol has been a huge success, and I want to declare that this will be a yearly event from now onward.”
He was busy thanking guests for attending as at the time I left, but while I have joined another event to drink beer with friends, I can not guarantee that Dr Amaechi Nwachukwu will not spend the night in the hospital opening up bodies in the name of surgery.
He has operated on me before, and also on my son, and I know that opening up and fixing bodies are not so much of a big deal to him.
All man to their calling. I told one of my children who came to ask me which course he can study to get rich that – even if you are a refuse disposer, just be hard working and you can get rich from disposing refuse.
Good night folks.
