NGO aids health centres with medical supplies in karonga

Karonga based Pamoza Tingakwaniska Youth Organization has on Thursday donated K640, 000 worth of medical supplies to Nyungwe and Iponga Health Centres to ensure the improvement of Sexual and Reproductive Health delivery.

The donation comes following a need assessment that the organization carried out in the health centres for its Fiska Ulato project.

Speaking in an interview after the donation Programs manager for the organization Gomezgani Mhango, said they thought of making the donation to ease some of the challenges of SRH that patients are encountering.

“We have made this donation today because we want to make sure that no mother or woman is sent home without being assisted accordingly or sent to purchase items for treatment in SRH from private clinics or pharmacies due to their unavailability in the health centres,” she said.

Adding that the donation was made to ensure the smooth running of family planning services delivery in the health centres so that women among others do not spend a lot of their hard earned money in seeking such services.

Mhango has since cautioned authorities in the centres against misusing the donated supplies saying the vice is counterproductive in ensuring quality service delivery of SRH in health centres.

Lucia Kumwenda, an expectant mother at Nyungwe Health Centre, lamented that most women wanting to seek assistance on SRH are forced to dig deep into their pockets when they are told that such items are in short supply at the health centres.

On his part Leonard Ng’oma, Nurse midwife technician for Iponga Health Centre, expressed graditude for the timely donation of the supplies.
“We thank the organization for a timely help, we did not have these supplies here at our pharmacy and we have been facing a lot of challenges so this will help us deliver services smoothly and we promise to make proper use of it,” he explained.

Pamoza Tingakwaniska made the donation through its Fiska Ulato project which is being implemented with financial help from Breuckmann foundation and among others the donation included, pregnancy tests, surgical blades, emergency pills and washing soap and hand washing soap.