VSF Donates N42m Elevator to Health Ministry

VSF Donates N42m Elevator to Health Ministry

By Kasim Sumaina

The Victims Support Fund Taskforce (VSFT) on COVID-19 has donated a 13-passenger capacity elevator and UPS equipment valued at over N42 million to the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) as means of supporting and tackling COVID-19 pandemic disease.

This VSFT disclosed that the donation came with one year maintenance agreement that would see the VSFT pay for a full year maintenance before fully handing over the elevator to the ministry.

Speaking at the donation and inauguration of the elevator at the FMoH secretariat in Abuja, the Chairperson of the VSFT, Mrs. Toyosi-Akerele Ogunsiji, stated that the VSFT on COVID-19 is commissioning and handing over a newly installed 13 passenger capacity elevator and UPS equipment to the federal ministry of health as part of its efforts to support the activities of the ministry during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ogunsiji said that the taskforce in September 2020 made an initial donation of ICT equipment and funds to the ministry; to support the ministerial expert advisory committee on the national pandemic action plan, technology equipment, state-of-the-art video teleconferencing and surveillance facilities, and infrastructure to support data collection, and the quality of human capacity within the ministry.

She also said that the taskforce has completed the implementation of the first, second and third phases of its COVID-19 emergency intervention programme, which involved the distribution of food, medical consumables and personal protective equipment’s (PPE’s) to 19 states across the six geo-political zones of the country as well as the provision of support and donations to the National Council for Women Societies (NCWS), National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), Federal Ministry of Health and the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the Construction of Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) facilities in 54 schools in 18 across the six geo-political zones of Nigeria.

She said: “The VSF Taskforce on COVID-19 has already donated technology equipment, state-of-the-art video teleconferencing and surveillance facilities, as well as infrastructure to support data collection and the quality of human capacity within the ministry.”

Appreciating the kind gesture of the VSFT, the Minister of State for Health, Mr. Adeleke Olorunnimbe Mamora, said this was the first time an elevator will be replaced at the ministry in the last 20 years.

The minister also assured the VSFT that the elevator would be properly maintained and put to good use.

Recall that the VSFT was inaugurated by the Chairman of Victims Support Fund, Lt. Gen. T. Y. Danjuma (rtd), with a mandate to provide palliative measures to Internally Displaced Persons and other vulnerable groups around the country, as part of its contribution to national efforts in the fight against COVID-19.

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