Seychelles Hospital receives more donations |26 February 2021

Minister Vidot accepts the donation from Mrs Azaïs (Photo: Louis Toussaint)

The Seychelles Hospital has received more donations in support of efforts to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 in the country.

Yesterday, the hospital received donations from the ambassador of the Order of Malta, Alexandra Azaïs; the Nepalese community in Seychelles and the General Employer Trade Union of Seychelles (Getus).

The handover of the donations took place at the Sheikh Khalifa auditorium.

The Minister for Health, Peggy Vidot, accepted a donation of 5000 syringes, complete with needles (50 boxes of 100) from Mrs Azaïs.

Mrs Azaïs noted that her son Alessandro did several donations in the past and “in this difficult time he wanted to be again at the side of the government of Seychelles with a donation of syringes to support the current campaign to control Covid-19 in the country. The vaccination programme needs this kind of support because one batch of vaccines received by Seychelles does not include the tools needed to be administered. This present contribution of 5000 syringes goes only a small way towards meeting the country’s needs but our wish is to bring relief support to the Ministry of Health”.

Minister Vidot expressed her gratitude to Mrs Azais for her commendable action.

The second donation was a monetary contribution from the Nepalese community working in Seychelles. A sum of R40,000 was handed over to the deputy chief executive of the Health Care Agency, Kathleen Cécile, by the community’s representative Ram Prasad Panta.

Ms Cécile noted that when Mr Panta contacted her for a donation, she was deeply touched by this gesture.

“You are a community living in our midst and you came forward to help us,” she said.

The third donation was from Getus represented by Tina Hoareau and it consisted of two printers and one laptop for the isolation facilities, one laptop for the national immunisation manager and other goods which has cost R67,000. The donations were received by Ms Cécile.

“Getus is pleased to offer you some of the equipment that the Ministry of Health requested and we also gave some sweet products to boost up the morale of the health workers,” said Ms Hoareau.

Ms Cécile thanked all the donors, stating that their actions bring joy and give impetus to all the health workers to continue their work despite being very tired.

The accompanying photos show the handover of the donations.

Vidya Gappy