Sigma Pensions Limited
has donated drugs and medical equipment to the National Eye Centre, Kaduna.
The company also renovated the emergency unit of the hospital and provided it
with visitors’ chairs.
Making
the donations on Wednesday at the centre, Chief Compliance Officer of Sigma
Pensions, Mrs. Nafisa Mohammed, said the donations were part of the cooperate
social responsibility of the company.
She
said as a pension administrator, Sigma was determined to contribute its quota
to better the lives of the people.
She
said the drugs and the equipment were to help the centre in rendering services
to the people.
“We
tried to do our own beat as it were, towards helping the centre. It is a
partnership and we felt we need to give back at our own level.
“We
refurbished the emergency wing of the eye centre. We provided visitors chairs.
We provided some equipment and drugs for the emergency unit,” she said.
According
to her, the items donated were among some of the necessities of the centre.
She
said the centre provided a list of the essential things that are required to
provide efficient services, adding the medical equipment and drugs were part of
the list.
She
said as a national organisation, Sigma Pensions is involved with every state in
the country with a view to assist various communities.
“The
aim is to work within various communities to try and see how we can give back.
This is just one of them.
We
have done our little bid and we hope that God will give us the grace and the
ability to do more in future” she said in an interview with journalists shortly
after presenting the donations.
According
to her, “the Eye Centre employs individuals, the pension administrator provides
services that look after individuals, we invest the funds of employees so that
when they retired, they can access funds.
“The
Eye Centre is an employer that we relate with. We know some of our costumers
visit the eye centre, so providing them with the necessary equipment will go a
long way in making their services more accessible to the people” she said.
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