Youth NGO Donates Medical Supplies to Chitipa Health Centre

Malawi-Pamoza Tingakwaniska, a youth non-governmental organization, donated medical supplies to Wenya health centre in Chitipa district on Thursday, writes Emmanuel Moyo.

The aim was to improve the provision of family planning methods in the area.

Last year, the organization conducted a need assessment at the health centre, specifically in the catchment areas of their 'Wanangwa Wane' project.

According to the programs manager for the organization, Gomezgani Mhango, the assessment showed a significant need for medical supplies.

Mhango said, "We have made this donation because this is what the health centre had indicated was needed but not in full supply and asked us to help them."

She urged the authorities at the facility to use the donated materials properly so that they benefit the community at large.

The consignment included syringes, plaster, bandages, gauze rolls, heavy-duty aprons, lignocaine, cotton wool, examination gloves, gauze squares, gumboots, spirit, surgical blades, and bufen.

The in-charge of Wenya Health Centre, Baxter Msongole, praised the organization for the gesture, stating that it would help improve the situation at the facility.

“This donation will help us a lot because we were lacking a lot of materials that are needed in the provision of family planning methods to the people of Wenya, and we hope this will help end early and unplanned pregnancies,” he said.

Msongole assured the organization that the authority would make proper use of the donated materials.

This is not the first time Pamoza Tingakwaniska has donated medical supplies to a health centre.

Earlier in January, the organization donated similar medical supplies to Fulirwa health centre in Karonga District.

The organization donated 531,500 Malawi Kwacha worth of medical supplies, with financial support from the Breuckmann Foundation and the German Government's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.

The donation from Pamoza Tingakwaniska is a much-needed boost for Wenya health centre, which has been grappling with a shortage of medical supplies.