The items include a brand new ambulance, six NNPC operational ambulance vehicles, one big ventilator, one small ventilator, patient monitor, hospital beds, bedside cupboards, overtop tables, air conditioners, fully automated 5-part hematology analyzer and semi-automated chemistry analyzer.
Others are alert blood culture analyzer, Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) device, pro-express Samsung printer, binocular microscope, table top centrifuge and pipettes.
NNPC Group Managing Director, Mallam Mele Kyari, performed the handing over ceremony at the weekend, according to a statement by the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru.
Kyari said:“Government cannot do this alone. Health systems, the world over, are getting overwhelmed. Countries with stronger health systems are struggling to contain the pandemic.
” In light of this, the Oil and Gas Industry is collaborating to strengthen Nigeria’s response to the pandemic.
“These efforts, coordinated by the Honorable Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, will support Government agencies in providing urgently needed resources both human and materials required to curb this pandemic.”
He commended the Federal Government and the Federal Ministry of Health for mapping out measures to respond adequately to the outbreak of the disease in Nigeria, saying a multi-sectoral team, led by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), was at the forefront of effort.
Kyari particularly lauded the Minister of Health and the NCDC, the Public Health Department (PHD) of FCT, University of Abuja Teaching Hospital and the medical community in the country for their efforts in combating the virus, stressing that the NNPC remained grateful for their dedication in safeguarding the lives of Nigerians.
“It is obvious that to fight this menace, we all have to collaborate to ensure that Nigeria defeats this virus.”
The Medical Director of NNPC Medical Services Ltd, Dr. Mohammed Zango, said the corporation as a responsible organization, was making the donation to meet the urgent medical needs of the isolation centre in Abuja and to make the centre more effective in delivering on its mandate.
Earlier, the Chief Medical Director of the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Prof. Bissallah Ekele, commended the NNPC for rising up to the occasion by supplying the essential medical equipment to the hospital, noting that the gesture would go a long way in helping the hospital to save lives.
He observed that the teaching hospital had never been given such a huge and generous support in the 26 years history of its establishment, assuring that the equipment would be judiciously used.
Responding on behalf of the Director General of NCDC, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, the Director of Administration of the NCDC, Alh. Yahaya Abdullahi, described the medical equipment donated by NNPC as the largest intervention so far received.
He called on other corporate organisations in the country emulate the NNPC’s gestures.
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