Kumul Holdings gives K1mil to kidney foundation

KUMUL Mineral Holdings Limited (KMHL) presented a K1million to the PNG Kidney Foundation (PNGKF) in Port Moresby yesterday to support its work on kidney diseases.
That was the second payment of the K3 million sponsorship package by KMHL as agreed under the Charity Partnership Agreement signed between the two parties on Dec 22, 2022.
The foundation had received its first payment of K1million in January 2023.
Chairman and founder of the foundation Sir Martin Poh, while receiving and acknowledging the cheque, said the money would be put to good use and would help the foundation to train nurses and help in building the new kidney dialysis medical centre.
Sir Martin said the first payment of K1 million had helped the foundation in patients care and purchasing a seven hectare piece of land.
He said the foundation would construct two buildings on that land.
“One will be a kidney medical clinic and the other to train nurses,” he said.
“The kidney clinic that we are going to have, we will be called Kumul Mineral Medical Clinic.”
He said the foundation’s plan for this year was to set up two dialysis centres, one in East New Britain and the other in West New Britain which would be made possible through the funding from KMHL.
He acknowledge KMHL for their support and said they were the big supporters of the foundation.
“The money we get from KMHL is used to help promote the kidney disease and also to help the facility help patients on treatment,” he said.
Chairman of KMHL Dr Ila Temu said the company had recognised chronic kidney failure as a lifestyle disease which had and would continue to threaten the lives of people.
“This is probably one area in the health space that really needed a lot of help,” he said.
Dr Temu said the company was happy to have spent the money that would be required to allow the foundation to function and deliver what would be needed.
“We are happy to be a partner with such a credible entity and I am confident that the partnership will probably continue beyond what we had agreed to,” he said.
“For us in KMHL, we are happy to continue to fund the good work of the foundation and we look forward to further partnership moving forward.”
Dr Temu had encouraged other entities to support a worthwhile cause such as the PNGKF.