In working together with the health ministry to improve the health sector, Cospharm Investments last week donated surgical gloves worth N$2.6 million to the ministry. 

“Today we are here as Cospharm and to hold hands with the ministry of health to provide resources that are required in service delivery to the people of Namibia, who deserve quality and readily available services,” said the company’s general manager, Elina Veijo.

Veijo added that a healthy nation is a happy nation, therefore, it is their mandate to assist the government with the values that resonate with them.

“We believe in our motto, which is believing in good. We believe that Namibians deserve health services, as the ministry is currently doing, so we are here to hand over these gloves that form part of the health system,” she said.

Speaking at the handover, acting director of the directorate of pharmaceutical services in the health ministry, Fabiola Vahekeni, expressed gratitude to Cospharm Investments for the donation.

She said the ministry has been experiencing a shortage of gloves, and the donation came at the right.

“Gloves are very important. They are the fast commodities that are used in the health facilities; they are used in every observation that you are doing, and this is combating infection spread,” she said.

Vahekeni further said the donations will assist in ensuring that services at health facilities continue and prevent the spread of diseases.

“We have been reading in the newspapers that there is currently an outbreak of cholera in our neighbouring countries, and these donations will go along with ensuring that we are prepared if there is any outbreak in the country,” she said.

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