By Bashir Hassan
A Wukari based non-governmental organisation, Mfanyima Orphanage Foundation (MOF) has feted over 200 patients receiving treatment at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) Bauchi.
The Foundation shared food items, clothing, footwear and detergents to the patients in almost all the wards of the hospital on Tuesday.
Speaking shortly before the commencement of the distribution, the Founder and Managing Director of the Foundation, Mrs. Catherine Wakasa Solomon Nubunga, said that she was moved to reach out to the patients having nursed her daughter for five months in the hospital after sustaining a fracture in an accident when she was serving as a corps member.
Mrs. Solomon said that the gesture of sharing the items to the patients was the Foundation's way of showing gratitude for God's intervention in the speedy hailing of her daughter and ability of the health experts in the hospital for managing the case effectively and efficiently.
While highlighting the activities of MOF, the founder said that the Foundation is solely focused on taking care of Abandoned Babies, Orphans, Vulnerable Children (ABOVC) and widows.
She said that the Foundation is committed to declare the love of Christ to the ABOVCS and Widows, stressing that, "This is achieved through celebrations at the end of every year, during Christmas festive season where the foundation visit various villages, towns, and cities to give these people reason to celebrate with joy and happiness".
According to Mrs Solomon, the Foundation's beneficiaries comprise the orphans, widows, physically challenged and the less privileged.
Responding, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of ATBUTH, Professor Yusuf Jibrin Bara expressed the hospital management's gratitude for the gesture which he described as the first of its kind in the hospital.
Represented by Dr. Haruna Liman, the CMD said that, it is the first time a caregiver and patient that was managed by the hospital coming back to give something in charity to patients that are currently on admission in the hospital.
He appreciated the Foundation's gesture and further called on well meaning individuals and corporate organisations to emulate such gestures.
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