On Tuesday morning, President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s foundation in Rehab, Paynesville, received a young female guest named S. Prisca Momolu. Miss Momolu serves as Receiving & Inspection manager for John F. Kennedy Medical Center here, the largest referral hospital in the country.
Accompanied by her driver plus a special assistant, they had come to the president’s charity to pick up two Joerns ICU beds-quite sophisticated but VIP style. The beds had been donated along with other medical items, Monday, to the foundation by a US-based Liberian philanthropist, John Arthur Debrum, for onward distribution to needy local hospitals.
LPRC’s Board Chairman Aaron J. Wheagar, I, a permanent resident of Liberia, donated the package on behalf of the donor, whom he described as a friend and church brother, and added that each of the Joerns ICU beds was worth about U.S. $80.000. The consignment consisted of disposable gloves, hand sanitizers, lab gowns, wheelchairs, used and new hospital beds.
At a brief turn-over ceremony that took place at the foundation’s Rehab headquarters, LPRC’s Board Chair, Wheagar said, while he visited the U.S. in July, he saw scores of Liberians expressed satisfaction over the path President Joseph Boakai’s Rescued Government had taken and therefore pledged to assist in accelerating the country’s development needs.
According to Wheagar, Liberians said they are happy with the way in which President Boakai’s Rescued Government is working hard to make life better for people at home. “They are happy to see the country in the hands of good people. They are happy to see a predictable path in which our nation is taken,” Wheagar said of his fellow countrymen living in the U.S.
Appearing thrilled at the donation, the JNB Foundation’s boss, Hon. Jackson K. George Jr. described the new Joerns ICU Beds as “sophisticated” and gladly accepted the kind gesture, assuring they would be of great help to local healthcare facilities especially, the JFK, the largest recipient of the foundation’s donations so far.
Hon. George said, in his travels across the country he had noticed that some hospitals and clinics still lack beds for patients, and cited Totota Clinic in central Liberia, serving a densely populated region as an example, expressing hope that John Debrum’s package would bring some relief to such clinics including the Rally Time Hospital in Fish Town, Grand Kru, far east of the country.
He assured the donors that those medical supplies would be used properly to benefit the people. Hon. Jackson George’s deputy executive director, Mr. Henry Saah Flanpor earlier opened the ceremony; Text & Photographs by James Kokulo Fasuekoi|JNB Foundation Communication Director
