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Foreign-based doctors donate drugs to Linden
A quantity of medications and other medical supplies was presented to Regional Health Officer Dr. Pansy Armstrong, earlier this week, for distribution to Health Centres in and around Region Ten.
The donation which was made by a team of overseas-based Linden doctors, was distributed by executives of the youth group, “Experiment to Discover Hope”.
Natallia Jordan making the presentation of drugs to Dr. Pansy Armstrong.
President of the group, Natallia Jordan, said that the presentation was one of the ways that the group has identified to give back to the community.
“We hope that these drugs will go a far way in reaching the people of Linden. Apart from this gesture today, we’re also involved in other activities to promote development in the community, including creating research centres in pilot communities, such as at the Christianburg Community Centre, and the Research Centre at the Victory Valley Church and also at Wisroc.
“We’re putting computers and tablets at these centres so that students could go there and do their research for assignments, SBAs and so on. We also supply books so that they could read, and people visit the centres in the afternoons to help the students to write and engage in different craft activities,” Jordan declared.
Jordan said that the group is expected to do another Youth forum sometime this year, as they had done last year, and that plans are also in train to host a fashion show in the last quarter of the year, featuring young local designers.
As regards the financing of projects Jordan said that the group promotes fund raising activities as well as seek sponsorship to assist in the execution of projects.
The group which was formed in March last year is expected to be officially launched on April 23, next.
“We want to open this year’s Town Week with a bang, something clean, something fun for young people. We want to show young people that we don’t only party and drink and lime in the street, but we also do educational and social stuff together.
Dr. Armstrong said that she was very appreciative. She pointed out that the drugs will go to the clinics for which they are intended. She also expressed heartfelt thanks to the overseas-based doctors responsible for the donation.
Recently, persons all across Region Ten have been crying out about the unavailability of several drugs mainly at the Linden Hospital Complex.
This issue was also highlighted in the media. However, at yesterday’s RDC statutory meeting it was pointed out that of the 360 types of drugs that had been ordered 320 were received.
The forty types of drugs that were not supplied were reportedly not ‘emergency drugs’ according to information supplied by a senior health official.
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