Coast General Teaching and Referral Hospital has received a major boost after a company donated 10,000 litres of liquid oxygen for coronavirus patients, momentarily easing tribulations facing Mombasa county health department.
Mombasa Cement Limited donated the liquid oxygen for treatment of coronavirus patients barely a month after the facility’s chief administrator, Dr Iqbal Khandwalla, pleaded with well-wishers to aid CGTRH, the region’s largest hospital, with oxygen supply.
Dr Khandwalla said the disease has a huge demand for oxygen. “In this era of Covid-19, there is an urgent need for support of oxygen supply. The disease has a huge demand for oxygen and we have requested assistance. This is not a profit-making institution; it’s a government referral hospital where all the charges are highly subsidised,” said Dr Khandwalla on November 10.
This week, his prayers were answered when the cement manufacturing company donated the oxygen to the facility. Covid-19 patients require high volumes of oxygen for treatment.
The proprietor of the company, renowned Mombasa philanthropist Hasnuk Patel, has been instrumental in donating equipment to the hospital.
“The oxygen will supplement the county reserves needed for critical care of coronavirus patients at the referral facility,” said health county executive Ms Hazel Koitaba, who praised the company for the donation and their continued support for health programmes in the devolved unit.
The machine for testing Covid-19 in Mombasa, which broke down almost a week ago, is also yet to be repaired as the Governor Hassan Joho-led government remains mum over the matter.
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