Douala: ENEO donates 25M FCFA-worth medical equipment to Bonamoussadi Health Centre.

Eneo Regional Director, Genie Claudette Ngongang, handing equipment to Medical Officer

Electricity supply company, Energy of Cameroon, Eneo, has, as part of the its Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, donated medical equipment worth almost 25 million FCFA to the Bonamoussadi District Medical Centre, DMC, in Douala. 

The donation is said to have been triggered by an incident that took place at the Eneo Bonamoussadi Agency early last year. 



It should be recalled that on Wednesday February 21, 2024, at about 8.30a.m, a customer of Eneo, who had come to pay his bill at the said agency, collapsed on the way to his vehicle and subsequently died at the Bonamoussadi DMC. 

Officials said though the company was in no way responsible, Eneo decided to act by responding favourably to the request of the Chief Medical Officer at the time, by providing the Bonamoussadi DMC with equipment that might have saved the victim's life if the health facility had been equipped with it.

Thus, in the spirit of Christmas, the top management, represented by Littoral Regional Director, Genie Claudette Ngongang, donated items comprising a defibrillator, consultation tables, anaesthesia ventilators, oxygen cylinders and oxygen concentrators.  

Speaking at the ceremony, Ngongang said she hopes the donated package, will equip the Bonamoussadi DMC with resuscitation equipment that will provide better care for victims of cardiac arrest and electricity-related accidents. 

The donation, she said, has the ultimate aim of saving lives. She went on to reiterate Eneo's commitment to continuously contribute to community development.

The Medical Officer in charge of Bonamoussadi DMC, Dr Ongbassomben Sonia, upon receiving the donations, noted that they will go a long way to boost the performance of the hospital in terms of emergency responses. The facility, she said, receives approximately 1,800 patients monthly. 

"The surgical department, though equipped with working tools, will become more performant," she said. She, however, called on the donors to ensure frequent power outages are reduced.

 

Eneo's CSR anchored on four values

Meanwhile, Genie Claudette Ngongang in her address, also highlighted other areas where the company has exhibited its largesse. She noted that Eneo’s Corporate Social Responsibility is anchored in four core values.

Ngongang added that Eneo believes that as a socially responsible company, it must be credible with all its stakeholders, use its resources sustainably, give its employees, customers and communities a suitable treatment, control the social, economic, health and environmental impact of its activities, and fulfil its regulatory and legal obligations. 

"This is what we succeed in doing when, for example, we justify more than 700 billion FCFA in taxes and various levies paid to the State. We also have 1,400 billion FCFA committed for the benefit of local companies, the recruitment of 1,500 youths, access to electricity for more than one million households and businesses. There is also the direct supervision of 3,600 employees and indirect management of a 10,000-man workforce, a permanent dialogue with our partner companies on the state of our relationship, actions for the wellbeing of the communities around us. All of this has been achieved over the course of 10 years," she said 

Ngongang noted that for the benefit of communities and electricity users in general, Eneo has rolled out a permanent awareness campaign on the dangers of electricity. 

She said among other priority areas, the company between 2020 and 2024, focused on; improving access to drinking water with the WASH Programme, and electricity in rural areas through autonomous solutions, MICROSOLAR Programme. 

Eneo, she disclosed, also offered 10 boreholes to village communities and nine autonomous solar kits were installed in orphanages, schools and health centres in rural areas. This, she noted, cost an estimated 166 million FCFA and benefiting 420,000 locals. 

Aside these feats, Eneo, through the anti-desertification programme, planted 21,000 trees between 2020 and 2021, to help combat the advancement of desertification in the northern part of the country.

 

This article was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3332 of Wednesday January 08, 2025

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