The Management of Baywood Foundation on Thursday donated some alcoholic-based hand sanitisers to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku Ozalla, Enugu State.
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The Country Director of the Foundation, Mr Chika Ojielo, said that the gesture was to ensure that patients, doctors and other health personnel in the hospital were safe from coronavirus (COVID-19).
Ojielo said that the move would also spur the hospital in its advocacy in making sure that people at various communities practice good hand-washing hygiene.
He said that the Foundation was appreciative of the role UNTH had played in containing the spread of COVID-19 in the state.
Ojielo said that the Foundation had earlier supported the Department of Community Medicine, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, to produce about 500 bottles of hand sensitisers.
“The Foundation would embark on further sensitisation and interventions including the distribution of food items to indigent residents of the state to cushion the effects of the lockdown,” he said.
Responding, the Chief Medical Director, UNTH, Dr Onodugo Obinna, commended the Foundation for its intervention.
Obinna said that the institution would continue to partner with the foundation in providing quality healthcare for the vulnerable in the society.
It would be recalled that the Foundation had earlier donated cartons of hand sanitisers to the State Ministry of Health to support population and communities at negative edges of health care access.
The Foundation had also donated some protective equipment to health personnel in some Primary Healthcare Centres (PHC) in the state including Obukpa PHC in Nsukka Local Government Area.