Akim Oda Gov’t Hospital receives donation

The Newmont Akyem Mines, in partnership with the Project CURE, a United States-based non-governmental organisation, have donated medical equipment worth 205,000 dollars, to the Akim Oda Government Hospital.

The items were ventilators, electric beds, mattresses, industrial tread mill, wheel chairs, chairs, and antenatal machines, among others

Mr Kelvin Moxahm, the General Manager of Newmont Akyem Mines, said the donation was part of the company’s social responsibilities to facilitate health service delivery.

He said Newmont had supported the renovation of wards at the hospital, and had also made several donations to other sectors in the Akyem Kotoku Traditional Area.

Mr Moxahm said the gesture was through the efforts of Nana Akua Asantewaa the third, a Queen mother in the traditional area.

Nana Asantewaa appealed to the nurses and doctors to use the equipment efficiently, and maintain them to encourage other public-spirited philanthropists to come to the aid of the hospital.

Dr Kobena Awotwe Wiredu, Medical Superintendent of the Hospital, who received the items, expressed gratitude to Newmont Akyem Mines and the Project CURE for the kind gesture.

He noted that if the hospital was well equipped, there would be no need of transferring ring patients to other health facilities.