Indorama Donates N80m Hospital Equipment

Various hospital equipment worth over 80 million Naira were donated to Nchia General Hospital, Eleme, Rivers State on Friday, 9th September, 2011 by Indorama/Eleme Petrochemicals Company Limited (EPCL) as part of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

The 134 hospital equipment include blood bank, cardiac monitor, diagnostic sets, kidney dish, incubators, ulta-sound machine, vacuum extractor, festoscope, mental catheter, patients beds, baby cots, heamatocrit reader, among others.

Chief Medical Director of Rivers State Health Management Board, Dr Rojas Weli, who received the equipment on behalf of the Permanent Secretary in the state Ministry of Health, Dr. Godwin Mpi described the Indorama-EPCL gesture as unprecedented.

He said the hospital is now like a referral hospital because of the array of sophisticated equipment mostly found in teaching hospitals.

“We are going to send people here who will man these equipment effectively so that they can be useful for the saving of lives,” Dr Weli said. He urged the hospital management to ensure that no one steals the equipment.

Indorama-EPCL also renovated the hospital’s various wards, built two roads within the hospital; and rebuilt the doctors’ and nurses’ quarters abandoned several years ago. The general hospital was built in 1979 by the Okilo administration but abandoned over the years by subsequent administrations in the state.

The re-inauguration of the renovated hospital and the donation of the equipment were performed by Dr Weli on behalf of Dr Mpi in the absence of a new commissioner of health in the state.

Managing Director of Indorama-EPCL Mr Manish Mundra, said that the company’s gesture is “to show our good heart to the entire Eleme people and other people resident in the area because of the importance we place on healthcare of people around us.”

The managing director said the project was outside its community developments projects captured in its MOU with the host communities. “This is an addition which is part of our corporate social responsibility (CSR)” he said.

The state Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Community Affairs, Hon. Charles Okaye said Indorama_EPCL will endear itself to its communities by the gesture; and wondered why other companies have failed to do the same thing.

The traditional ruler of Eleme-land, His Royal Majesty, Dr S. O. Ejire, represented by Chief Phillip Obele, commended Indorama-EPCL for its gesture which he described as “marvellous”.

The company’s Head, Corporate Communications and Special Adviser to the Managing Director, Sir Jossy Nkwocha, said the hospital project was another demonstration of the company’s love and care for people of Eleme and Rivers State in general.