Sharing in Nursing Education (SHINE Africa), a charitable organisation based in the United Kingdom, Sunday presented beds, mattresses, wheel chairs, working aids, crutches, trolley and dustbins to the Brikama Major Health Centre, in the West Coast Region.

On receiving the items, Alfusainy Manneh, senior nurse and head of the General Ward, at the Health Centre, stressed the importance of the donated items, particularly for operation in theatre. According to him, the donated items are very much needed in the health centre, while informing that at the moment there is some expansion exercise going on at the health centre, andthat having additional health materials would help a great deal.

Manneh disclosed that the health facilities need support from individuals and communities, noting that the government cannot do it all alone. ‘Health is a cross- cutting issue; therefore it should be everybody’s business.Individuals who are directly benefiting from the services of the facility coming to support the health facility is as step in the right direction,” he said.

On behalf of the Ministry of Health, Manneh commended the donor for its timely intervention, hoping that the donation would be the beginning of a long term fruitful cooperation between the Health Centre and the donor.

For his part, Dawda Jammeh, project coordinator, SHINE Africa, said as a Gambian and native of Brikama, it is very important to come back home and support his own people. “It is my brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers who are admitted to this Health Centre,” he added.

He therefore expressed hope that the donation will go a long way to ease some of the problems that the health centre is confronted with, in its quest to providing effective health service delivery.