Kumba Boys In USA Donate to K’ba District Hospital

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba

Some equipment donated by K-town boys in Atlanta, USA presented to Meme SDO

The Kumba District Hospital has benefitted medical equipment estimated at over FCFA 300 million to boost its equipment pool, effectiveness and increase the wellbeing of patients. The medical equipment were officially handed to the Kumba District hospital in the presence of the Meme administration and the hospital management board Wednesday November 21, 2018. The donation is a goodwill gesture of the Meme sons living in Atlanta under their group dubbed the Association of K-Town Boys in Atlanta.

                Speaking earlier at the reception ceremony, Dr Tchakounte Awala Sandrine Espe Mve Biwole, the Director of the Kumba District hospital, lauded the initiative of the K-Town boys in Atlanta for thinking about the wellbeing of their people back home.

                Dr. Tchakoute noted that the equipment which comprises ECG monitors, Electrode ECG, Ultra/Radiolucent Electrode, Dressing kits, Beds, Mattresses, Blankets, Blood Collection sets, Circumcision Trays, Drape pack, C-Section pack, Examination Gloves, Operation lamp and many others will not only ease the scanning  and screaming process of illnesses but will also help better the services offered by the hospital.

                She also used the occasion to appeal to other sons and daughters of Kumba living in the Diaspora to emulate the examples of K.Town boys in Atlanta and do similar donations to the hospital in domains that will especially with equipment such as; a standby generator of about 200Kva, an operating table, anesthetic table, autoclaves etc that the hospital is badly in need of further boost its equipment pool and better their services.

                On his part, the Chairman of the hospital’s management committee who doubles as Government Delegate to the Kumba City council, Ngoh Nkelle Victor, immensely expressed gratitude to the donors adding that their gesture will forever remain in the history of the hospital’s records.

                Ngoh Nkelle recounted that despite the challenges that the donors encountered from the purchase to transportation and payment of custom duties, their willingness to see into it that their community back home is better up in the domain of health care didn’t let them down. While praying for more equipment from the donors in the future, Ngoh Nkelle revealed that, the beds, mattresses and other equipment are already being enjoyed by the patients in the hospital. He called on other Kumba sons and daughters to copy the example of K.Town boys in Atlanta and do more donations to the community.

                The ceremony was under the watchful eyes of Meme SDO, Chamberlin Ntou’ou Ndong who used the occasion to urge all the hospital personnel to handle the equipment with so much care and with the fear of God. He warned all hospital workers against carrying the equipment to other areas to do works for their private interest. The event was animated by singing and traditional dance groups and ended with a guided tour of the SDO round the hospital.