Malawi Reinsurance company Limited (MalawiRe) has donated K2.5 million worth of mattresses and buckets to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital as a way of improving hygiene at the hospital.
The donation comprised of 80 mattresses and 79 buckets of 20 litres each.
MalawiRe Assistant General Manager responsible for Finance and Administration, Edward Harold, said the actual plans were to donate only mattresses after noting that some patients were sleeping on the floor.
“You know the company has been in operation in the country for over 20 years and each year we put aside a budget for corporate social responsibility. We were moved to see that some of the patients and pregnant women were sleeping on bare floor and as management we sat down that we should do something,” said Harold.
Receiving the donation QECH Principal Health Services Administrator, Chikumbutso Tambala, thanked MalawiRe for the donation which he said will go a long way in improving health services delivery.
“It will complement the efforts that our doctors and nurses are putting in assisting the patients. Treatment on its own cannot do anything good to a patient, but the environment also plays a part. So the mattresses will provide the comfort and also the buckets will assist in the transportation from our kitchen to the patients and at the same time collect refuse from the wards to our incinerator,” Tambala said.
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