Groups donate items to 485 widows

The Christopher Blinding Mission (CBM) in collaboration with Makkah Eye Specialist Hospital in Bauchi has donated food items and hygiene kits to 485 widows and other vulnerable households to cushion the economic hardship caused by COVID-19 pandemic in Bauchi and Katagum Local Governments Areas of the state.

The organisations also donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) and other non-pharmaceutical preventive equipment against COVID-19 to seven Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) in the two LGAs.

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Manager of the Makkah Specialist Hospital Bauchi, Abdullahi Badamasi, said the programme was support for people living with disabilities, widows and the aged in the selected communities.