A Lagos based Oil Company Antoniooil has paid N150.000 for the operation of 9 year old Rukaiya suffering post burn contractures and currently awaiting operations at the Dala orthopedic hospital Kano.

The oil company had responded to a publication on her appeal in Sunday Trust when her parents asked for assistance.

Handing over the N150.000.00 cash to the officials of the hospital head of the human resources department and personal assistant to the Managing Director of the company, Mr Ocholi Joseph said the decision to pay the bills was based on their social responsibility to the public.

“We believe it is part of our responsibility to pay back to the society especially people like Rukaiya whose life is in danger,” he said

He said the company is always ready to support indigent Nigerians through such gestures, adding that Antonioil is determined to ensure no Nigerian dies unnecessarily.

“On behalf of my managing director Mr Anthony Effedua who read the story of Rukaiya while on a business trip to Abuja and ordered the immediate settlement of the bills, I will like to commend Media Trust limited for bringing the plight of such Nigerians to the fore so that succor could come their way,” he stated.

In his reaction after the money was paid to the hospital management, acting chief medical director of the hospital Dr Celestine Nkanta, described the gesture of Antonioil as commendable and urged other organisations to emulate it.

Dr Nkanta said soon the hospital will launch a fund for indigent patients through which people who cannot pay their bills can be assisted, saying that it is only through such gestures that the well to do can support their fellow Nigerians.

He then commended the company for finding time to travel from Lagos to assist a victim in Kano, this he said is a sign that Nigerians are their brothers’ keepers.

Meanwhile other donors have continued to call at the Daily Trust office Kano to deposit money for the care of Rukaiya amongst who is a police officer Mr Nazifi who donated N20.000 as well as a friend who donated N10.000 for the upkeep of the patient, the money has since been handed over to the family.

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