By Adama Makasuba
BSIC Bank Gambia on Tuesday handed 40 cartons of sanitary pads worth over 50,000 dalasis to Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital in Banjul as part of International Women’s Day celebration.
The gesture is also part of the bank’s aim in eradicating poverty, and support health care, education and child welfare.
Speaking during the handing over ceremony at the hospital, Fatoumatta Jaiteh, EFSTH maternity ward head described the gesture as timely and that: “this sanitary pads is used by all the women in my department, it is not only for those that delivered we have a gynecology ward some of them are bleeding they are not pregnant but suffering from discharge and need pads as well.”
Also speaking, BSIC head of marketing, Abisatou Manneh Samba, said: “Bsic is here today celebrating women’s day; women are the backbone of the society; so for the past week, we [have] series of events we been doing in celebration of women’s day.”
She expressed joy in giving help to the main referral hospital of the country, adding “we have a lot of women in our management team, lot of staff that are women and they are very empowered.”
“This is what we want to bring out there to the people so they know we are here for women not just that but we here every Gambian,” she said.
Bsic Bank is a bank in the sub-African countries of The Gambia, Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast, Togo and others.
