As part of activities marking Muharram the new year of 1445 AH Islamic calendar, Frist Aid members of Shababul Faida Jamiyyatu Ansarudden Attijaniyya Nigeria, have procured and donated free drugs and consumable items to the less privileged, helpless children and nursing mothers at Herwa Clinic and State Special Hospital, Maiduguri.
Receiving the items, the Chief Medical, Dr. Shehu Mohammed, said it is a rare opportunity that will be of great help and assistance to the children and nursing mothers, especially, the weak or the poor who cannot afford prescribed drugs or are in critical situation and in need of support.
”Governor Zulum’s government introduced Free Maternal which the First Lady , even as Dr. Palmara Babagana Umaa Zulum, chairs dialysis. We appreciate and urge individuals and organisations to support these children and nursing mothers to alleviate their sufferings. It is beneficial and rewarding. That’s why we set up a committee on free donations to distribute such items to right children and nursing mothers,” Mohammed said.
He added that it has been long that the hospital got such support from the people or organisations including NGOs.
While appreciating the gesture, he called on wealthy individuals and organisations to emulate the leaders and members of Shababul Faida First Aid Nigeria for such initiative and subsequent donation.
Dr. Mohammed added that government alone cannot afford to accommodate all the medical needs of the large member of patients to the hospital, particularly, the children and nursing mothers.
He noted that the hospital management has set up a standing social welfare committee on how social support and free drugs as well as other items donated for the children and nursing mothers at the hospital are going to be judiciously distributed based on the
needs and condition or status as well as level of illness of the patients which comprises of different personnel from almost all the departments of the hospital including the unions.
He said such drugs and items in the past were kept in the central store safely and shared accordingly based on the recommendations of the social welfare and distribution committee where the departments of pediatric, gynaecology and pharmacy are involved.
Dr. Mohammed assured that the items would be handed over to the committee for onward distribution to the children and nursing mothers free of charge in commemoration of the New Year of the Islamic Calendar Muharram 1445 AH.
The facility manager, Herwa Clinic Maiduguri, Hahiya Maryam, thanked the donors for such presentation and assured of judicious distribution of all the drugs donated to the needy.
