Life for Relief and Development (LFR&D) in Partnership with World Medical Relief International, has on Wednesday June 17, 2020, donated medical equipment and supplies to the University of Sierra Leone Teaching Hospitals Complex (USLTHC) on the outskirts of Waterloo.
The local representative for World Medical Relief International, Haja Mariam Fadika, in her address at the presentation ceremony, said that the items were an extra boost to the health sector in the country especially as it grapples with the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
According to Haja Fadika, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation and the Emergency Operation Center (EOC) have also benefitted from donations from World Medical Relief, and furthered that it was USL-HSC’s time to benefit from them.
The Chairperson for USL-THC, Dr. (Mrs) Sonia Spencer, when received the items donated by LFR&D, pledged USL-THC’s pledged commitment to distributing them among six Health Facilities in the country. She reiterated that the donated items came at a very useful time and would contribute to the improvement of patient treatment and care in the hospitals.
“Dr. Nellie Bell was overjoyed when she found [among the items donated] a small supply of the much needed Enoxaparin Injection (anti-coagulant) that is vital in treating patients with COVID-19 which is gradually becoming scarce in the market,” she revealed, and assured Haja Fadika that the donated items would be used solely for patients. She called on the representatives from the six beneficiary hospital to receive their various portions of the donated items, and charged them with the responsibility of accounting and dealing with them in a transparent manner in due course.
He revealed that Ward 8 at Connaught is generally a forgotten ward, but assured all that it would directly benefit from mattresses, wheelchairs, walkers and commodes. She added that the Female Surgical ward, Emergency and Resuscitation Unit would also benefit from the items.
The donated items included surgical supplies for Anaesthesia, Orthopaedic and General surgeries, and assorted items that would be essential to patients.
The hospitals that benefitted include Ola During Children’s Hospital, Aberdeen Women’s Center, Jui Hospital, Connaught Hospital, Psychiatric Hospital Kissy and Lakka Infectious Diseases Health Center.
By George M.O. Williams
19/6/2020. ISSUE NO.: 7849