By Fahad
As it is an act of humanity to visit the sick people, the Muslim community in Mbale city paid a courtesy to Mbale regional referral hospital to offer charity to the sick.
The Sheikh twale of Mbale city Abubakar Makombe led the team, and they spent the better part of the day visiting and greeting patients in different wards of the hospital where they donated to the patients’ essential commodities used in daily life like sugar, soap among others.
Makombe said it’s their duty as Muslims to care for the sick people more so during the month of Ramadhan. He commended all Muslim the community in the city who contributed the little they had to make the program of visiting the sick people possible.
“We thank the hospital administrators who accepted us to give the little to the patients in the hospital, as we all know it is our routine as Muslims to offer charity to the sick especially at the end of the month of Ramadhan and we pray to the Almighty to heal the sick” he said.
He said there is need for help in the hospital and appealed to the community outside the hospital whether Muslims or non-Muslims to support the sick.
“There is much need among the people in the hospital, we request that other people out there join hands to support the sick” he added.
Namukwasi Janat, a health worker at Mbale referral hospital commended the Muslims for the caring heart exhibited to the patients. She said the people in the hospital in Mbale referral hospital are in dire need of help and also appealed to the Muslims to always take time to check on them routinely.
Some of the patients who received the donations expressed happiness to the Muslim community. “May Allah reward whoever has come here and offered us these things” one of the care takers of a patient in the hospital said.