We Remain Committed to Transformative Social Projects – Shell

Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Ltd. (SNEPCo) has stated that it and its co-venture partners will keep implementing investments that have an impact.

At a recent outreach event held in Lagos as part of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd.’s (NNPC) and Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Ltd.’s (SNEPCo) Vision First project, SNEPCo Managing Director Ronald Adams

Over 2,000 individuals received healthcare services during the outreach, and there have been reports of vision being restored.

After being unable to see my lovely wife for a few years, I can now see her clearly and again. After undergoing surgery to remove a cataract from his eyes, Ademola Alabi Joshua, a recipient, expressed his happiness.
I decided to have surgery on my second eye, which was also done yesterday, after learning that my sight had returned to normal after my first eye was operated on when I first arrived. Many thanks.

Another recipient, Mrs. Taiwo Onogu, claimed that although the eye surgery was eventually performed at the outreach for free, she was charged N1.4 million for it.

The outreach, which took place in Mushin Local Council Development Area for five days, was the fourth to take place in Lagos since the Vision First initiative was launched in 2022. Among other things, the medical team operated on 245 patients, 198 of whom had cataracts and 47 of whom had pterygium. Another 1,992 received laboratory services while the pharmacy dispensed drugs to 1,863 patients. A total of 1,652 individuals were consulted.

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The program has now reached over 6,000 people, performed over 400 eye surgeries, and distributed over 2,000 pairs of glasses since 2022, according to the most recent milestones.

Ronald Adams, the managing director of SNEPCo, made the following statement regarding the program’s impact: “We’re pleased at the testimonies from Mushin, which were the same positive feedback from the three earlier sessions. Vision is an important part of life.” Our activities since we pioneered deep-water oil production at Bonga in 2005 have included significant social initiatives, which we will continue to undertake with the help of NNPC and our co-venture partners.

Given that three out of four Nigerians are at risk of blindness, the Vision First effort seeks to prevent avoidable vision impairment through early diagnosis and treatment. This information was reported in the National Eye Health Policy in 2019.