COVID-19: Rotary Club of Yenagoa donates preventive kits to health centres in Bayelsa
Donation
By Shedrack Frank
Yenagoa, April 22, 2020 (NAN) The Rotary Club of Yenagoa has donated preventive kits to the Amarata Primary Healthcare Centre and Family Support Programme Clinic in Ovom as part of efforts to prevent the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic in Bayelsa.
The President, Rotary Club of Yenagoa, Mr James Peretu, said this while making the donation to the health facilities on Wednesday in Yenagoa.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the preventive kits includes 28 bottles of hand sanitisers, 10 packs of surgical face masks and 60 tablets of antiseptic soap.
“We are here to present this little items toward the fight against COVID-19 in our little ways.
“I think this is not much but it can go a little way to assist in the fight, as other NGOs will still present theirs,” he said.
He appealed to other organisations to also support the government by equipping primary healthcare centres with drugs and needed equipment to ensure availability and accessibility.
On his part, the immediate past President of the organisation and Chairman, COVID-19 Response Committee, Dr Obioma Obikeze, said the items and materials donated would enable the health facilities to enhance preventive measures and control.
“We are happy that they are doing those things we wanted them to do, so it is a way of support to the residents of Bayelsa,” he said.
Obikeze advised residents to practice and maintain personal hygiene, saying that by doing all those necessary preventive measures, “Bayelsa will never have any case till when it will come to an end”.
NAN reports that the items were received on behalf of the Primary Healthcare Centre, Amarata by Dr Bekesuo Martins, the Executive Secretary Primary Healthcare Board.
Dr Benjamin Tabowei, Chief Medical Director, Bayelsa State Management Board, received on behalf of Family Support Programme Clinic, Ovom.
They both thanked the organisation for extending its contribution to healthcare delivery and called on other non-governmental organisations to emulate the initiative.
“We are honoured and grateful to have received such gesture from Rotary Club, in this trying time of COVID-19, ravaging the whole world,” they said. (NAN)
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(Edited by Folasade Adeniran/Peter Ejiofor)