Total Donates Baby Care Unit Worth N203m To NDUTH..!!

What better way to give back to your customers than to add more value to their HEALTH... People of the Niger Delta, especially Women and their kids will be happy with the kind gesture shown by TOTAL.

Total Exploration and Production had donated baby care unit valued N203 million had donated baby care unit valued N203 million to the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri.

Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Onyaye Kunle-Olowu, said the facility would help reduce infant mortality by about 40 per cent in the State.

Kunle-Olowu disclosed that the facility comprised wards, beds, baby incubators and others.

According to her, the donation of the facility by the oil firm had also helped Bayelsa to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on maternal mortality reduction.

She said that premature babies now stood higher chances of survival with the use of the state-of-the-art facility.

"Bayelsa is committed to the attainment of the MDGs in 2015 and the well-equipped special care baby unit with trained personnel is key to the reduction of infant mortality. It is important to note that the facility will take care of neo-natal mortality which accounts for 40 per cent of the infant mortality rate in Bayelsa", Kunle-Olowu said.

She added that the hospital was grateful for the construction and equipping of the unit with a dedicated laboratory and mothers' room.

The chief medical director pointed out that Total had also donated ambulances to the hospital in the past, commending it for the gesture and urging others to emulate it.

Nice one TOTAL...

Keep staying Healthy, Informed and Entertained...!!!
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