UNHCR boosts health sector
--Donates to Redemption, ELWA, and Duport Road Hospitals
By Lewis S. Teh
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) over the weekend donated assorted items to key institutions affecting the Du-Port Road Health Center, Redemption, and ELWA Hospitals, respectively.
The donation team was led by UNHCR Country Representative Anthony AkumuAbogi with the sole purpose of beefing up the humanitarian interventions of those benefiting entities.
The latest donations to the three health centers over the weekend began with Redemption Hospital in the slum of New Kru Town on Bushrod Island followed by the Du-Port Road Health Center and finally the ELWA Hospital in Paynesville.
The UNHCR Boss presented another huge consignment of items to the facilities, including thermal (fleece) blankets, heavy-duty plastic buckets, laundry and powder soaps, hand gloves, mosquito nets, hand sanitizers, solar lamp portable led, and dry-erase boards.
Giving a unified message to the various administrators during the presentation of the donated items, Mr. Anthony AkumuAbogi emphasized that the gesture of the UNHCR also reflects the goodwill of the One United Nations family in Liberia.
“For us as UNHCR, it is very important to have a partnership with the mission of public and private hospitals like you because we’ve done the same with other developed institutions, but we’ve thought to extend it to you too considering the enormous challenges you face and many services you provide to the people of Liberia,” he stressed.
The UNHCR Country Representative further promised continued partnership and support to the health centers in the interest of the country.
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He also urged the three administrators of the health centers to ensure the donated items properly benefit the patients of their various wards, stressing the need to serve humanity with diligence, dedication, and passion.
Receiving the donations, the Officer-in-Charge of Du-port Road Health Center, Kolu Y. Johnson, and the Administrator of the ELWA Hospital, Rev. James Freeman Garway, including the Redemption Hospital, lauded the donors for the intervention.
“This step is like a wonder of God, and also a blessing to our patients here. We have lots of challenges, especially inadequate hand gloves, unstable electricity, and lack of mosquito nets are key of our many problems we face here but the intervention of the UNHCR has put a smile on not only our faces as an administration but also the faces of our patients,” Madam Johnson said.
The heads of the three health centers further promised to meet the expectations of the UN body by ensuring the donation serves the intended purposes.
Meanwhile, Mr. Abogi also donated huge consignments of assorted items, including solar lights, thermal (fleece) blankets, heavy-duty plastic buckets, powder soap, mosquito nets, and hand gloves to Liberia’s largest referral hospital – John F. Kennedy Medical Center, Liberia National Red Cross Society, and the Monrovia Prison Center.
