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Nigeria’s leading engineering construction company, Julius Berger
Nigeria Plc, has continued to sustain and expand its COVID-19
palliatives donations in the country.
The company had made series of important corporate social responsibility
contributions including food supplies, personal protective equipment,
much needed clinical beds, and mattress donations as well as ambulance
vehicle, amongst others to Local Councils, communities, hospitals; and
government-nominated COVID-19 isolation centres across the country since
the coronavirus pandemic began.
Julius Berger, in fulfillment of the company’s Managing Director, Dr.
Lars Richter’s pledge to continue to assist the government and people of
Nigeria to the best of its ability in the fight to contain the spread
and impact of COVID-19, again last Monday, donated large quantities of
needed beds to more health care facilities.
The Julius Berger hospital palliatives donation team from the Abuja-Kano
Road project, led by Yusuf Ibrahim, again donated more hospital beds to
the Umar Musa Yar’Dua Memorial Hospital, Wuse, Niger State. The Julius
Berger team was received by the Head of Clinicals, Dr Richard A. Agba.
He on behalf of the hospital thanked Julius Berger for its goodwill and
proactive corporate social responsibility gesture.
The Julius Berger team also visited and donated more hospital beds to
the Primary Health Care Centre at Jere, Kargako Local Government Area in
Kaduna State, where the Wazirin (District Head) of Jere, Alhaji
Abdullahi Daniya was on hand to receive the Julius Berger Hospital
Palliatives Donations Team. The Wazirin of Jere also thanked Julius
Berger for the kind gesture which he said is a reflection of the
sensitivity of the company to the real needs of the community’s Health
Care Centre at this time.
The Divisional Manager of the AKR project, Mr. Benjamin Bott said the
company’s real interest in the welfare and well being of its operational
communities is a cherished historical corporate tradition, and the
commitment of the executive management of the company to upholding that
tradition is a continuing and solemn duty of all operatives of Julius
Berger. That ‘solemn voluntary CSR duty’, Bott said, ‘has become even
more compelling by the unfortunate threat of the coronavirus which we
must all jointly, and to the best of our ability, fight and defeat’.
It would be recalled that the Secretary to the Government of the
Federation and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss
Mustapha, had last week announced an extension by four weeks of the
current phase of the national non-pharmaceutical response to the
coronavirus pandemic for another four weeks.