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NKCG, Essau Hospital fundraising set for tomorrow

Feb 3, 2023, 1:24 PM

Nuimi Kanuma Cultural Group (NKCG) will tomorrow, Saturday 4th February 2023 embark on a fundraising event in collaboration with staff of Essau District Hospital. The event will be held at Essau community nursery school widely known as Jackson.

The proceeds gain from the show will be use to erect a waiting center for patient escort at the hospital as they are always expose to danger outside.

According to organizers, as part of their social contribution in the community they live, they came up with the initiative as the government cannot do it all alone.

“We realised that we can also do our quota in complimenting government efforts in nation building,” they added.

In this light, they called on all and sundry in The Gambia and abroad to support them in the derive to realize their objective because prevention is better than cure, before patient escorts end up being patients.

An assessment done has indicated that two hundred and seventy-one thousand dalasi will be needed for the construction of the patient escort waiting center.