“K- Towners International” Assists IDPs With Health Care Amenities

The donation by K- Towners International in synergy with CARITIS International, took place recently in Kumbawith about 5000 Internally Displaced Persons(IDPs) in attendance.

The Secretary General of K- Towners International, Barrister BezeBejeNkem, sitting in for the Chief Executive Officer, CEO, MedikiBokeng, revealed that the organisation, after receiving complaints on the deplorable health conditions of the numerous IDP's within Meme Division following the negative effects of the ongoing Anglophone crisis, decided to extend a hand of fellowship to the IDPs.

He disclosed that the organisation had to select six medical health facilities in Kumba to carry on an inventory of the IDPs in their various health units and submit them with the essential medical amenities needed.

Earmarked for the “K-Towners International” humanitarian gesture, were the Kumba Health District six health units including Preventive Health Centre, St John Catholic Hospital in Fiango, Kosala Health unit, 3-Corners Ntam Health Centre, Kang Barombi health centre, and Kumba PMI health Unit.

The scribe of K- Towners International urged the selected health centres to use the medical amenities for the purpose intended and not to siphon them at the detriment IDPs who find themselves in Kumba not by their making.

Dr Mukwelle Isaac Ngouba, a reputable pharmacist in Kumba who monitored the medical amenities to make sure they are those of necessity, congratulated the initiative of the organisation and called on other goodwill organisations to emulate them.

Reacting to the donation, Dr Frida Ngange Mbolo'o of the Kumba 1 Sub Divisional Health Centre, PMI, said the medication may be small in the eyes of many but a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.

She showered praises on the organisation for the donation which, she qualified, as essential and timely and took an oath to use the medication for the treatment of IDPs only.

The Chief of Centre of the Living Health Centre Kumba Mbeng, Basaka Eveline was optimistic that the medication shall go a long way to alleviate the conditions of the IDPs who consult at the health facility on a daily basis without the financial means to purchase the essential drugs.

One of the IDPs,Ijoema Uche, from Mbonge- Marumba, who has been under medical care at the Kumba I Health Centre for about five months after he was transferred from the Kumba District Health Centre, expressed thanks that the medication will be able to help him especially as his family is suffering from adject poverty. Apart from hailing K- Towners International, he launched a fervent appeal to other good will organisations to come to the assistance of IDPs.

K-Towners International is a humanitarian NGO created in Texas, USA, grouping all children born and bred in Kumba, Meme Division.