By Stanley Onyekwere
A private firm, KGDN Technologies Limited in partnership with VWR International, a United States based firm has bolstered healthcare delivery in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) , with the donation of laboratory equipment made up of 36,000 Vacutainer Tubes to the FCT Administration.
Making the donation at a brief ceremony, recently, the Chairman, KGDN Technologies Ltd, Dr. Ben Nkechika, said the vacutainer tubes donated were for the safe collection of blood in the laboratories.
He explained: “So, these bottles are specially designed to contain blood and transport blood to laboratories simply without any kind of spillage. So, it’s called vacutainer.
It’s a specialised kind of blood collection bottles. It’s not what you use in any regular lab. It’s used in specialised labs”.
He also used the occasion to commend the FCT Minister and FCT health personnel for the proper management of the COVID 19 pandemic in the FCT.
Receiving the donation, the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello commended the KGDN Technologies for its continued support and partnership with the FCTA for the improvement of health care delivery in the FCT.
Bello said the Vacutainer Tubes being donated would go a long way in assisting the FCTA in this regard.
According the Minister: “On behalf of the FCT Administration and the entire citizens, I wish to thank you most sincerely for donating 36,000 pieces of Vacutainer tubes.
“This is something for which the city of Abuja is very happy and we will continue to remember this gesture and I do hope that you continue to partner with our experts in the Health Services Secretariat so that we all jointly improve health facilities for the city and of course beyond.
“Going forward, of course, we’ve learnt a lot of lessons from COVID-19 and one of it is the need for us to continue to upgrade our hospital facilities, both in terms of physical and technology and above all, human capacity. This is something we will continue to do and we are going to leverage on modern technology, especially ICT to see that we do that.
“So, I think it’s in these areas that organisations like yours share the same goals in what we do. You have been very helpful and very useful and I encourage you to continue to provide this kind of community support because I think it’s very important”.
While thanking the group for the support it rendered the FCTA in the fight against the COVID 19 pandemic, the Minister said one of the lessons learnt from the pandemic was the need to continuously upgrade health facilities and the personnel.
Similarly, the Secretary, Health and Human Services Secretariat (HHSS), Dr. Abubakar Tafida, who thanked the group for the donation stressed that healthcare was everybody’s business and urged other organisations to emulate the KGDN group by supporting the FCTA’s efforts at providing qualitative and affordable healthcare in the FCT.
He assured that the vacutainers will be deployed to FCTA health facilities “where they are important in safely collecting blood samples from patients to avoid transmission of contagious diseases between infected and healthy individuals”.
