Group donates equipment to Niger PHC, subsidises life-saving machine costs

The Niger State Primary Health Care has said it received medical equipments worth N4 million  that would make medical treatment cheaper for the residents.

The Medical Director of the Chanchaga  Primary Health Care, Bosso Local Government Area, Hajiya Zulai Tukura, who spoke to Arewa PUNCH upon receiving the equipments assured that the hospital will make judicious use of the equipment to the benefit of the residents of Chanchaga community and Bosso LGA, especially the pregnant women, infants, and the elderly.

The medical equipments, our correspondent gathered, were donated made by The Inside Life Golf Club.

According to the Chairman of the Inside Life Golfing Club, Captain Danjuma Ahmed, the members visited the Chanchaga Primary Health Centre in Minna where they donated N4 million  worth of equipment.

He said the aim of their gesture was to give back to society.

Earlier, the chairman of the Local Organising Committee, Amb John Gana, whose team identified the Primary Health Care that the golfers donated the items to, said they were disappointed and disturbed by the poor state of the PHC equipment when they visited the hospital.

Gana at the event said, “We are here to donate medical equipment and supplies to Chanchaga Primary Health Care Centre because investigations reveal that the centre needs help and that’s what Inside Life does wherever it meets.

“Every year, we have what we call the converge where we golfers meet to play golf but beyond that we also like to give back to the community because we have very eminent and warm hearted people who like to do for the less privileged.

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“Last year, we did it in Kano. The year before, we did it in Jos. It was an orphanage and next year, wherever we have the privilege to go, we will do philanthropy.

“We came up with the decision to do it here because when we came to this medical facility we were very very  embarrassed and disappointed at the poor state of the facility. The building was in a horrible State. In fact, no human being should be put in a place like that. We were disturbed. No healthy person should be put in a place like that, much less a person who is sick, but we’ve renovated it now,” Gana said.

He further disclosed that the hospital items donated and delivered to the clinic included, scanning machines, autoclave, centrifuge, delivery kits, ⁠BP apparatus, mercury, angle lamp, trolley, baby scale, adult scale, forceps, vagina spec, plastics, metal, kamar syringes, dressing trays, bed pans, clinical thermo and fire extinguishers among others.

Meanwhile, Group Captain Danjuma Ahmed who also spoke to Arewa PUNCH stressed that the golfing group that is extremely passionate about touching lives.

He explained, “As you all know, Inside Life is a golfing community that is passionate about golf and extremely passionate about touching peoples’ lives positively.

“Part of what we do is that the LOC constitutes a monitoring team to follow-up on the activities and projects we have undertaken and donated to touch different lives. Part of what we believe passionately about is also that we should subsidise the cost of using this machine for the people,” he said.