CRDB donates 50m/- equipment to Bugando hospital


CRDB bank has donated various equipment including nets, blankets, bed sheets and renovation of a maternity ward all worth 50m/- at Bugando Referral Hospital in Mwanza city.

Bugando Referral Hospital is a consultant and teaching hospital for the Lake and Western zones of the country situated along the shores of Lake Victoria in Mwanza City.

So far, it has 900 beds and approximately 900 employees. It is a referral centre for six regions of Mwanza, Mara, Kagera, Shinyanga, Tabora and Kigoma, serving population of approximately 18 million people.

Speaking during the handover ceremony of the renovated maternity ward to the Regional Commissioner of Mwanza, Engineer Evarist Ndikilo, which went hand in hand with the tree planting campaign at the hospital.

CRDB Bank Executive Director Dr Chalres Kimei said the donation of the equipment and renovation of the ward is part of implementing their corporate social responsibility which requires the bank to set aside one per cent of its profit to the community.

“Last year, we got 100bn/- shillings profit, and we normally have a culture of returning back what we get to the community, and today we are here in Bugando to handover those things and this ward worth 50m/-,” he said, adding that the bank will continue support the community on health, education and environment conservation and they have so far donated the same to Morogoro, Mbeya and Tabora regions.


The Mwanza Regional Commissioner, Engineer Evarist Ndikilo, lauded the bank for its support, adding that it came at the time of need and urged other banks and financial institutions in the country to borrow a leaf.

“I would like to express my sincere gratitude, for the job you have done here, which is of great help to the Mwanza community,” he said He also commended the bank, for its decision to come to invest in Mwanza, the second biggest region in the country with a population of 2, 772, 509 that contributed 9.15 per cent to the national income.

“I congratulate you for implementing your corporate social responsibility policy. Let me take this opportunity to urge other banks to emulate you,” he said Bugando Referral Hospital Executive Director, Prof Charles Majinge thanked the bank for its kind support saying it came at the right time to his hospital.

“I take this opportunity to thank the CRDB bank for its kind support to us, my request to the bank is that we are still facing challenges as a referral hospital, I urge the bank to work tirelessly and support us again,” he said.

By NASHON KENEDY, Tanzania Daily News

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