Clinic Donates 50 Resuscitation Kits To RSG

Rivers State Government,
yesterday received fifty sets of Children  Rediatric Resuscitation Kits, donated by Bridge Clinic  in Port Harcourt.
Presenting the kits in the office of the Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Managing Director of the Clinic, Dr. Richardson Ajayi, said the gesture was part of the clinic’s efforts towards reducing the high mortality rate of children in the society.
Ajayi, who was represented at the event by a senior consultant gynecologist in the clinic, Dr. Babatunde Ogunkinle, noted that respiratory infection had become one of the major causes of high infant mortality rate.
According to him, Bridge Clinic places  high premium on children who are gifts of God as  protected by the Child night Act, adding that they would continue to assist to reduce the burden.
Bridge  clinic recently made a donation of forty sets of the Pediatric Rescutating Kits also to the Rivers State chapter of Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria at the association’s office in Port Harcourt.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Sampson  Parker who received the donation on behalf  of the Rivers State Government expressed delight at the philanthropic gesture of the clinic.
Parker lauded the magnanimity  of the clinic, stating that a private concern that pays its due tax to the government, it was not mandatory for its to go thus far but as part of its social responsibility obligation, it decided to express such  high concern.
He disclosed  that the issue of infertility was giving many couples serious concern, stressing that the government was ready to partner with private efforts like the Bridge Clinic geared towards infertility child mortality reduction and training.
The commissioner, who restated the passion of Governor Chibuike Amaechi’s administrative towards improving healthcare,  emphassised that the present administration had taken the issue of health especially primary health care to the nooks and crannies  of the state and urged private investors to extend  their services to the rural areas to further  reduce the burden of those who can not afford the high cost of health services.

Chris Oluoh