By Mabinty M. Kamara
The Programme Coordinator at City of Rest a drug Rehabilitation centre Augusta Johnny has called on the public to support the home with some basic amenities including food and drugs following a fire incident that left one patient at the facility dead.
“One of our emergency needs for those that we are housing currently, is food stuff because the entire store burnt down so all our reserved food stuff were destroyed by the fire. So if the government, donors and well-wishers can help us with food and medication because during the fire we lost all of that,” she said.
She noted that the residents do not only need psychotropic drugs for their rehabilitation but also drugs for other diseases like malaria.
Ms. Johnny told Politico that on Saturday 1st April this year, one of their patients was alleged to have set ablaze one of the buildings as he was trying to escape from the facility.
She said the fire engulfed the nine bedroom building at their Main Grafton Regent road,Grafton facility and destroyed other properties. She said with the support of neighbors and the national fire service, they were able to put out the fire. She said most of those inside escaped unhurt but were to later realize that one of the male residents could not make it out of the room.
He said family members of those admitted at the centre initially went and collected their relatives but have brought some of them back to the facility because their situation cannot be managed at home. She said they currently have eight people in their care in the remaining part of the facility and that they are expecting more in the next few days due to the calls, they are getting from their families promising their return.
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