FEMD, NIMASA DONATE MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO WUSE GENERAL HOSPITAL

By: Ngaha Faustina

As part of their corporate social responsibility, the FCT Emergency Management Department (FEMD) in collaboration with the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has donated medical supplies and equipment to Wuse General Hospital in Abuja.

The donation is part of an ongoing partnership between the two agencies, under which Kuje and Asokoro General Hospitals of the FCT have already benefitted from similar interventions.

While presenting the item the Director of FEMD, Engr Mohammad Dikko, who was represented by the Deputy Director, Administration Department, Mohammed Usman Boyi, said the donation was in line with the policy direction of the Department to continually ensure health and safety in the FCT.

Also speaking at the event, the Deputy Director and Head of Relief and Rehabilitation, FEMD, Hajia Fatima Ibrahim, said the gesture became imperative highlighting the urgent need for support to the hospital.

“This initiated the donations of medical equipment, drugs and medical supplies from FEMD in collaboration with NIMASA,” she said.

Receiving the items, the Chief Medical Director of Wuse General Hospital, Dr. Hannatu Ovosi, immensely appreciated, FEMD and NIMASA for the support. She noted that the hospital faces many challenges but is intensifying efforts to overcome them, adding that the donation will go a long way in addressing some of the pressing needs of the facility.

She appreciated both agencies on behalf of the hospital management and patients.

Also speaking, the Secretary of the hospital, Mr. Crown Ajayi O. A. discribed the intervention as timely.

“You people brought almost the basic needs of the hospital, and it will go a long way to make our staff work with ease and with a level of satisfaction,” he said.

He appealed to other organizations to emulate the gesture by FEMD and NIMASA.

Items donated include ECG machine, Portable Sunction machines, Examination couch, Wheelchairs, Hospital beds, Drugs, Trolleys, Delivery kits, Bed side lockers, Auto clave, Blood preasure machines, Blood sugar testing kits, and other essential medical supplies.