After spending much of Tuesday at Bong County’s Central Agricultural Research Institute (CARI), participating in fertilizer-soil experiment staged by Agronomist Bernard Agran, a team of JNB Foundation staff moved to Ganta, Nimba, and donated assorted medical supplies to the E & J Medical Center.
The donation included boxes of items such as syringes, first aid kits, dressing set, thermometers, laboratory cups, hand gloves, nose masks, urine bags, insulin, IV Cipro 2, IV Metro 2, plus one hospital bed. This was the first of the charity’s donations to the health center, located in the country’s key northern commercial town of Ganta.
Prior to Tuesday’s donation the president’s charity had donated advanced and urgently needed hospital medical equipment such as Lab and Digital X-Ray machines to Jackson F. Doe Hospital, probably this region’s largest healthcare center strategically situated in Tappita, Nimba.
Hon. Jackson K. George Jr., the charity’s boss, who initially led a team of foreign medical technicians to Tappita, to install the Digital X-Ray given to the Jackson Doe Hospital, approved the Ganta-E & J Medical Center donation 8 September, prior to traveling to the U.S.
On behalf of Hon. George Jr., the JNB Foundation’s deputy director, Mr. Henry Saah Flanpor, praised his entity’s foreign donors for their continued support to the foundation and Liberia as a whole. He also thanked President Joseph Nyuma Boakai Sr. for following through on his own dream of revitalizing the country’s weak healthcare system.
He also acknowledged hard work by staffers at the E & J Medical Center in Ganta, saying they continue to provide needed healthcare to “less fortunate people” throughout that region.
Accepting the gift, Dr. Jerome C. Johnson, medical director at the E & J Hospital thanked the foundation for its thoughtful gift and maintained that the items would “augment” medical supplies they already have at hand.
Text & Photographs by James Kokulo Fasuekoi/JNB Foundation Communications Dept.
