By Steven Godfrey Mkweteza
BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-One of the country’s leading commercial banks, First Capital Bank (FCB) has donated MK15 million to BeitCure International Hospital in Blantyre to help the institution in organising the fundraising dinner and ease some services at the facility.
Speaking during the ceremony in Blantyre, FCB head of marketing and communications, Twikale Chirwa, said his company decided to help Beit Cure with the lump sum as part of its continued assistance it gives to the hospital for various initiatives.”
FCB and Beit Cure have been in a mutual partnership for so long. This relationship extends to the sponsorship we give to the hospital to transform the lives of the children,” he said Chirwa added that part of the donation is meant for the hospital to undertake various programs including awareness in it’s continued efforts to eradicate club foot in the country.”
There is alot that this hospital need, including transporting the children from their areas to here, feeding them, rehabilitation, counseling and medicine,” Chirwa said.
In his remarks, director of programs for the facility, Davie Simengwa, said the donation will go along way in eradicating suffering of the children currently admitted at the facility as well as help create awareness messages about the diseases.Simengwa said many people in the country do not understand some disabilities such as club foot, hence, the need to intensify more awareness campaigns.
Simengwa highlighted that the surgery at the hospital are absolutely free but the cost of transportation, food, medicine, counseling and rehabilitation cost them up to MK1.5 per children.”
We therefore call upon the general public to bring their children to our hospital to be operated on if they have disabilities such as club foot. Club foot is curable,” he said.
Simengwa said out if every 1000 birth, between five and six children develop club foot.
He however, said it is shocking that most parents do not know that the disease is curable, a development he attributed to the rising cases of the disability among most children.
Simengwa said the fundraising dinner to be held at ammalyris hotel in Blantyre on August 4,2023, will attract high profile stakeholders including the vice president Saulos Chilima as the guest of honour.
He added that the event is expected to raise over MK100 million to support the hospital.
