By Nyima Sillah
The UK-based charity, Ebou Mala’s Children Charity Foundation (EMCCF) has donated medical items worth D33,000 to The Gambia Red Cross Society (GRCS). The items are to be distributed to various health facilities and other vulnerable people in the society, especially children and women.
The materials included hospital mattresses, examination couch, wheelchairs, hospital screen, ultrasound kits and among others. It aims to equipped health facilities with medical items as well as support vulnerable people with medical items.
Fatou Bah-Bah CEO of EMCCF said the UK charitable organization partnered with GRCS to compliment government efforts through providing valuable items to both individuals and health facilities.
“EMCCF has been working with the GRCS since 2019 helping vulnerable Gambians and public institutions. Our partnership has been very effective. The GRCS is very effective on their doings. They often provide humanitarian assistance to many vulnerable Gambians, ” she said.
“The items will help to improve healthcare delivery in the country,” Madam Bah-Bah added.
Denish Nyamanhindi, National Police Aid Charity (NPAC)-UK representative described his organization partnership with Gambia Red Cross Society as wonderful, adding “when I get back to UK, I will do more for the country and I will continue doing more.”
Abdoulie Faye, Director of Program and Operation for GRCS, said the duo organizations have been supporting vulnerable people as well as schools through GRCS.
“Receiving these materials is a happy moment for us. There is a need for a healthy nation,” he said. However, Faye justified that for a nation to have a good economy, develop to expectation and be peaceful her people must be healthy.
Therefore, “This gesture will go a long way in helping the country to achieve the national goals when it comes to strengthening the health sector,” he assured them.
“We will work with the health ministry to ensure the materials go to health facilities that need it most. We will ensure the materials are delivered without any commercial activity,” he said.