The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (CEMGFA), Silva Ribeiro, announced this Wednesday that the Armed Forces will launch “very soon” a campaign to collect medical and nursing supplies destined for Guinea-Bissau.
Speaking to journalists in Ponta Delgada, after the presentation of the new powers of the Azores Operational Command, Admiral Silva Ribeiro announced that, after the collection of school books, the Guinea-Bissau’s “next goal” is to collect medical supplies.
What we are going to launch very soon is a campaign to collect material that can be used in nursing and medical acts,” he said.
CEMGFA also recalled that the Armed Forces were recently in Guinea-Bissau, where they helped repair health services.
We have repaired the pavilions of the health services of the Navy and Air Force in that country, but these pavilions provide care not only to the military, but also to civilians”, he pointed out.
Silva Ribeiro He also thanked the Azoreans who donated books to the campaigns of the Armed Forces in that African country.
I would like to leave a message of deep gratitude to the people who here in the Autonomous Region of the Azores collected the books from sixth to ninth grade that we delivered to Guinea-Bissau. It was a great success,” he said.
And he added: “I was very recently in that country and I had the highest authorities, from the President of the Republic to the school teachers and the children, expressions of great satisfaction.”
At the beginning of the month, CEMGFA made a working visit to Guinea-Bissau, during which it donated 20 tons of books and school supplies to various schools and visited two health centers, owned by the Guinean Navy and Air Force, recovered with the support of Portugal, and delivered an ambulance to the Armed Forces of Guinea.
António Silva Ribeiro received the National Order of Merit, Cooperation and Development from the President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló.
Source: Observadora
