IPNEWS: Local authorities and elders of Bong County have appreciated ArcelorMittal Liberia for initiating and supporting a medical outreach activity that’s benefiting thousands of villagers who cannot easily access healthcare services.
At the launch of the outreach in Zoweintaa on November 25, 2025, Dr. Garfee Williams, AML’s Chief Medical Officer, clarified that the outreach is the first in Bong implemented in collaboration with the government through county health team. He said the government, having identified what constitutes “Hardto-reach areas by the hours spent to reach a health facility, has mandated health workers to reach out to those communities with medicine to treat people who are ill.
In this connection, the Chief Medical Officer said AML decided to provide essential drugs that the county health team in each of the counties of AML’s operation will take to those hard-to-reach areas to treat people who are sick of common and treatable diseases.
He added that while medications that are available now are for diseases common to people in targeted areas, they are also considering modification of the service so that conditions such as eye problems can be addressed.
In response to the gesture, local government representative and those of the health sector expressed deep gratitude to AML for the gesture, stressing in separate statements that the outreach will help hundreds of people who find it difficult to reach to medical facilities in areas they are. Gayflor Sumo Nyangwebah, Community Health Department Director, lauded AML for the provision of essential drugs for citizens of the county and urged targeted beneficiaries to make themselves available when health workers go to them.
“Please turn out to be treated as AML has shown us this great gesture. The birds will not finish the rice,” he said.
Two AML representatives (Albertha Dianue of Community Relations and Edmund Saye Gbah of Community Development) making remarks separately. Freeman Myten, Clan Chief of Wota Clan, also expressed: “We are happy today that ArcelorMittal came with this medicine to give us.
We highly appreciate it, and we thank you who have come to benefit from this medical service.” Another speaker, Commissioner James T. Kpoquoi of Kpaai District, attributed the gesture to a mutual
