Comfort food given to Walsall Manor Hospital staff

A donation of comfort foods was given to Walsall Manor Hospital to help frontline workers.

Published Feb 3, 2021

Last updated Feb 3, 2021

Euro Foods Group, based in Darlaston, has donated food to the ICU and other NHS staff at Walsall Manor Hospital. Mohammed Habibus Samad and Moulana Abdur Rahim Uddin, from Euro Foods Group with ICU matron Angela Dixon and fundraising manager Georgie Westley

Chocolate, crisps, drinks and biscuits were donated to the hospital by Euro Foods Group, facilitated by the Union of Muslim organisations (UMO).

Moulana Abdur Rahim Uddin, depot manager at Euro Foods Group said: "We recognise the pressures on ICU and other NHS staff helping to treat patients with coronavirus.

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"It is important that as a community we show our appreciation for their dedication to save human lives."

Euro Foods Group, based in Darlaston, has donated food to the ICU and other NHS staff at Walsall Manor Hospital

Mohammed Arif, interim chairman of Union of Muslim organisations which facilitated the donation, said: "We are delighted to have facilitated this generous comfort food for the hard working NHS staff in these very testing times to bring a little smile on their faces to show that the Walsall people continue to remember them and appreciate their sacrifices during these waves of Covid-19."

Fundraising manager at the hospital, Georgie Westley, said: "The support received from the community is very much appreciated and means a lot to the staff."