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NAL Bank Splashes N4million on Charity In a bid to deliver on its corporate social responsibility promise to the society, NAL Bank Plc, this week in Lagos, donated N4million to six children who suffers from defective heart conditions. Each of the beneficiary received N.65million to enable them get the much needed specialists surgery to correct their heart defects, "if they must stay alive ." According to Alhaji Gambo Ahmed, Executive Director , Commercial Banking of NAL Bank, "It is our pleasure to contribute the sum of N4million in support of their medicare. In NAL Bank, we have chosen children as the center of our social responsibility commitment, and we will step-up efforts to promote their well-being." Ahmed therefore called on well-to-do Nigerians and other good spirited individuals to come to the aid of the children and give them necessary suppport to save them from live threatening ailments so that they have access to proper medical care and live normal life. According a statement from the bank, the charity initiatives tagged:charity walk" is one of the Bank's special ways of giving back to the community. The yearly programme which involves all staff of the bank nation wide was inaugurated in 1997 in partnership with Save-A-Child's-Heart (SACH), an international health programme that provides urgent medical surgery to Nigerian children with congenital heart disease. While presenting the N4million to Dr. Samuel Omokhodion, Consultant Paediattic Cardiologist of the University College Hospital (UCH) and initiator of the Save-A-Child's-Heart in Nigeria, Alhaji Gambo noted that the incidience of children born with heart defects is increasingly becoming a serious health problem in Nigeria. His words:"No fewer than 16000 children are born with varying degrees of heart defects and severity." He noted further that "without treatment, over 60 percent of the children do not live to their next bithdays" Gambo expressed dismay at the availability of only pallaitive remedy for heart defects in Nigeria while a more lasting surgical treatment could only be obtained at great cost abroad. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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