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
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