Group Donates Drugs, Fund To The Less Privileged in Kano

The Ramadan Trust Initiative (RTI), a faith-based charity organisation in Kano has donated drugs and other medical utilities for the less privileged persons with various health conditions at Murtala Mohammed Hospital.

The group also donated cash persons seeking financial assistance on medical grounds through Freedom Radio Kano.

Presenting the items to the management of Murtala Mohammed hospital on Thursday, Malam Aminu Lawal Atana, who is the Vice Chairman II of the organisation said the initiative was aimed at identifying with the poor and the under privileged members who could not afford their medical services.

 He said ‘’Ramadan Trust Initiative was founded 2 years ago primarily to assist the under privilege and the needy especially during the Holy month of Ramadan. We have rendered help in many places and out of our enquiries we learnt that there is need for drugs especially for women and children in this hospital which formed the basis of this intervention’’.

While promising more interventions in the future, Atana urged the hospital’s management to ensure that the materials get to the target beneficiaries.

Receiving the items, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital Dr. Nura Idris Tiga expressed appreciation to the group over the gesture describing it as timely. He said the materials came when the health facility is in dire need.

He said Mohammmed Murtala Hopsital has been ‘’port of call’’ to the poor and under privileged for a very long time due to various free health schemes it runs which attracts people from neighbouring states and countries thus resulting to artificial scarcity of drugs in the hospital.

He appealed to the group not to restrict its charitable work to Ramadan period alone saying there is blessing in any work of charity even after the holy month.

He also promised to ensured that the item get to their target beneficiaries. 

The group also presented one hundred and thirteen thousand naira cash (N113, 000) to the Operations manager of Freedom Radio Malam Nasiru Salisu Zango for onward distribution to 5 persons that approached the station for financial assistance on health ground.

CREDIT: DAILY TRUST