CLASSIC NEWS

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Public urged to assist cancer patients - TBS

Communities have been challenged to cultivate a culture of helping patients admitted in various hospitals as a way of comforting them.

This was said over the weekend in Dar es Salaam by the Director of Testing and Calibration Services at Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS), Agnes Mneney when handing over various items to patients admitted at Ocean Road Cancer Institute (ORCI).

She said items donated to each patient included bottled water, juice, washing soap, pampers, drugs and bus fare to some of the discharged patients all worth 2.9m/-.

“This donation should stimulate other people in the society to start helping patients admitted in various hospitals countrywide,” she said.

The TBS director added that patients need to be assisted because they are also part of society who would serve the nation once they have recovered from whatever malady bothering them.

Former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa (pictured) yesterday called on the public remain calm through the difficult political times the country is going through following the farcical election re-run in Zanzibar and urged them to maintain peace and tranquility in the country.

He made the call at the Azania Front Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dar es Salaam where he attended Easter Monday mass and used the occasion for thanksgiving prayers.

Lowassa, who moved to the opposition and vied for the Union presidency in last year’s general elections via Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA) said preserving peace is the only means of avoiding unnecessary disputes.

“Every individual has the responsibility to maintain the existing peace, clerics always tell us about the importance of maintaining the prevailing peace, so we ought to act on their sermons knowing that peace is the only gift we are blessed with,” he said.