STAFF REPORTER
National Council chairperson Hon. Lukas Sinimbo Muha on Friday received a donation of medical supplies from the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Washington.
The donation, comprising gauze bandages, face masks, syringes, suction bulbs, needles, reading glasses, surgical scissors, and more, is intended to benefit the Mururani Village Clinic in Hon. Muha’s Mankumpi Constituency in the Kavango West Region.
During the handover, Hon. Muha expressed gratitude for the donation and said that contributions of this nature could encourage the directorate to consider opening the clinic or facility on a permanent basis, reducing the need for residents to travel 40 to 50 kilometres to access healthcare services elsewhere.
“Nurses would come and visit the village once a month, sometimes twice a month, just to help them. Then they go back again,” Hon. Muha said.
Bjorn Larsen, a physician assistant at the Cardiology Centre of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Centre, together with his wife, Marit Trelstad, who works as a lecturer at the University of Namibia, said the supplies would be used to bolster the stock of the local clinic in order to support continued service delivery to patients in the area.
“The Mururani Clinic is a newly established clinic that currently lacks adequate medical supplies and does not have a permanent nurse. Nurses usually visit the clinic once a month depending on various factors including transportation,” Larsen said.
