Paynesville – As part of its social corporate responsibility, the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) over the weekend donated assorted materials to the Kingdom Care Medical Center in Duport Road, Paynesville City following the discharge of nine patients at the health facility.
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The items include 17 bags of rice, two bags of powder milk, and six cartons of creamy wheat, among others.
Delivering the items, the Corporate Communication Officer of NOCAL, Ambulah Mamey said the donation is a part of NOCAL social corporate responsibility and commitment to the Kingdom care mobile Clinic in the area of health.
“As part of our corporate social responsibility, we signed an agreement with the Kingdom Care Mobile Clinic and partner in the area of the health.”
“We basically go to communities where there are limited or no access health care facility,” he said.
Mamey added that the donation came in the wake of providing assistance to nine patients who were treated of various diseases and discharged at the facility through its corporate social responsibility and commitment to the Kingdom Care medical Center.
He noted that there are communities with limited health care facility where rural dwellers do not have the means to afford the cost of medication, prompting his institution (NOCAL) to intervene by providing free health care services through the Kingdom care Mobile Clinic.
“We basically go to communities where there are limited or no access to healthcare facility, or even if there are access to health care facility, rural dwellers at most times do not have the means to afford the cost of medication, so we go to these communities to provide free health care to these people,” Mamey averred.
Also discharging nine patients who successfully underwent a surgical operation at the Kingdom Care Medical facility, the Communication Officer said the National Oil Company of Liberia remains committed to providing free health services to Liberians who are challenge in the area of and cannot afford to the cost of medication.
He added that since the undertaken of the initiate more than seven hundred Liberians have benefited from the project, urging Liberians to take advantage of the venture as a means of boosting the health sector.
Mamey asserted that the aim of the project is to impact lives and give hope to the hopeless in the health sector, stressing that the development is part of NOCAL corporate responsibility to give back to society.
“The initiative is just to impact lives and gives people hope; even though NOCAL we’re in the situation where we are not generating revenue, but we are operating.”
“So it’s part of our corporate responsibility to our communities where we operate, even though we are not in the process of producing oil, but the fact that we exist and receiving fund for corporate social responsibility, we thought to make them feel part of it in their own way,” he noted.
He said Kingdom Care Medical Center is an implementing partner of the initiative based on the Memorandum of understanding owing to the fact that it is a health facility and has the necessary equipment and experts to do the job.
“Kingdom Care is an implementing partner, Kingdom Care is a medical center that has a mobile clinic so they are on the ones responsible, we’re only providing the funding,’” he said.
At the same time, the Chief Executive Officer of the Kingdom Care Medical Center, Doctor Martha N. Zarway said the health facility is charged the responsibility of providing free health care to patients while NOCAL is responsible to fund the project.
“My role in the partnership is this, God gave me the vision to be able to reach out in the rural areas in Liberia with free health services, but we all know that takes money so then are write the proposal and submitted it to NOCAL, NOCAL and her partner in Norway accepted the proposal and then funded it,” she said.
She said the sponsorship of the project started in 2013 with Chevron and NOCAL, but the current phase is being sponsor by NOCAL and its partner in the Norway called TGF Moppet, adding that there are more thirteen-thousand patients who have benefited from the project at the facility.
“Since 2013 to present, there are more 13,000 beneficiaries, excluding the ones we just did in Gbarpolu and Bomi Counties,” she noted.
Madam Zarway put the total cost of the project since operation in 2013 to present as US$ 202,000, stressing that the program has impacted the lives of Liberians in the rural part of the country do not have the opportunity to have access to free medical services.
For his part, a beneficiary of the project, Abraham A. Konneh thanked the NOCAL and the Kingdom Care Medical Center for their generosity.
Konneh said he has suffered from hernia for a long time, but through the intervention of the initiative he underwent a surgical operation and he is now medically fit.
Konneh is a 44-year-old, a farmer by profession and a resident of Gbarpolu County, who underwent an operation at the Kingdom Care medical center through the sponsorship of NOCAL.