Nord-Kivu: twenty tonnes of medicines handed over to a military facility in Beni

Beni, May 14^th, 2025 (CPA).– Twenty (20) tonnes of medicines have been delivered on Wednesday by a government delegation during a ceremony at the military garrison hospital of Mambango in the town of Beni, in Nord-Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. ‘We have just received a donation of medicines from the central government through the national Ministry in charge of Social Affairs and Humanitarian Action. These 20 tonnes are a relief that has come at just the right time, given the health emergencies threatening the region, especially in this military hospital where we receive many and then all of the soldiers wounded on the various fronts, as well as their dependents (…)’, has said Dr Leonard Kabelengenze, the Medical Director of the General Chiko Tchitambwe Garrison Military Hospital.  ‘I am very grateful and on behalf of the entire team at this military garrison hospital in Mambango. I would personally like to thank Ms Nathalie Aziza Munana, Minister in charge of Social Affairs and Humanitarian Action, for thinking of the sick soldiers and their dependents here in Beni,’ he has said. On her side, Mrs Estimee Lekopole, the acting head of division of Social Affairs and Humanitarian Action in Nord-Kivu, has explained that the concern of her ministry is to do even better to try to relieve the populations of this province. At the end of this activity at the Mambango military garrison hospital, the government delegation then went to Oïcha, the main town in the territory of Beni, where seven (7) tonnes of sheet metal and five hundred (500) wrappers were handed over to the displaced people of this entity, including the Pygmy peoples. ACP/