The Kingstone Charity Foundation, operated by the Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Smart Adeyemi has entered into a collaboration to procure and distribute ambulances and medical equipment worth over N100 million among Hospitals in Kogi State.
Senator Adeyemi, who disclosed this in a chat with newsmen in Abuja said that the initiative has become imperative in view of the untimely deaths being recorded across the state whenever a medical emergency occurs.
He stated that on a recent visit to the United States of America (USA), he was able to convince two American Non-Governmental Organisations, the Medical International, in Georgia and Ambulance Medical Foundation, New Jersey, to collaborate with the Kingstone Charity Organisation, which is being run by him to provide some succour to the people of Kogi West Senatorial District and the entire Kogi people.
According to him, Kingstone will defray about 70 per cent of the cost of the equipment, while the American NGOs will bear the cost up to about 30 per cent.
“This will go a long way in improving the lots of the people of my senatorial district, Kogi West and to a large extent my people in Kogi Central and Kogi East senatorial districts,” the Senator said.
He disclosed that 20 ambulances which constitute the first batch and which are equipped with life support facilities including oxygen, would be arriving Nigeria close to the end of October, adding that other ambulances would arrive the country at a later date.
