Eastern Highlands students attending tertiary institutions in East New Britain Province have made a purchase of 50 oxygen cylinders for the Goroka Provincial Hospital through a fundraising drive they had initiated in mid-October this year.
The payment of K9, 354 was made to BOC Limited in Lae on Monday through Bank South Pacific.
Leader of the student group Mr Hako Fuke told this newsroom that his fellow students at Vudal initiated the idea and the other students from Vunapope Nursing College and Kokopo Business College joined on board in their wheelbarrow push initiative.
Mr Fuke who is a 3rd year Bachelor of Sustainable Tropical Agriculture student at the University of Natural Resources and Environment said they started the wheelbarrow push in Kokopo, then to Rabaul and to Kerevat where the police, community leaders and NBC East New Britain provided support and assistance in making the campaign possible.
Although requests to business houses for help did not turn out positive, the students thanked the public throughout the province for their contribution to a worthy cause.
Mr Fuke said the student body came up the initiative after some of them lost their relatives and friends to the COVID 19 outbreak back in the province.