The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has visited the Abuja Orphanage Home with food items, toiletries and cash, towards improving the well-being of the children. Donating the items, the newly elected leadership of the NMA, led by the president, Dr Bala Muhammad Audu, said the gesture was part of the association’s humanitarian welfare package for vulnerable Nigerians. Dr.
Bala Noted that the NMA is a professional body of all Nigerian doctors whose main aim and objective is to ensure that quality healthcare is delivered to all Nigerians and to ensure that all those health professionals particularly doctors and dentists who deliver this quality healthcare are also well taken care of. He said the association, therefore, have a very strong humanitarian welfare package for vulnerable Nigerians. “Among these vulnerable Nigerians, we have identified orphans as one of the vulnerable groups.
“The NMA has, therefore, in its humanitarian charity decided to adopt at least seven orphanages around this country with at least one in each of the geopolitical zones of this country, starting with the Abuja orphanage which we have visited today in order to help with food stuffs, toiletries and some cash, to improve the upbringing of these vulnerable children so that the grow up to be good citizens of this country,” he said. Dr. Bala said this is essentially carried out through contribution from the National Officers Committee as well as collectively from the purse of contribution of Nig.
