Kumasi, July 13, GNA - The Ashanti Regional Branch of the Ghana Physically Disabled Association (GPDA) has presented 18 special wheel chairs worth 128.5 million cedis to an individual and a number of public organisations.
Three of the chairs went to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, 14 to the Kumasi Sports Stadium and one each to the Kumasi Airport and Mr Kwame Afriyie, a Junior Secondary School leaver at a village near Abono, in the Bosomtwe-Atwima-Kwanwoma District of Ashanti.
Mr Maxwell Boachie, Ashanti Regional President of the Association, presented the items and said they were Part of a donation from Joni and Friends Ministries of the United States.
He said although some of their members needed the chairs it was felt that by placing them at KATH, they could assist in the treatment of disabled patients.
Mr Boachie urged Sports authorities to consider the chairs as the association's contribution to the promotion of sports for the physically disabled.
He said the airport donation was to replace an old unserviceable chair there. Professor Albert Asafo-Agyei, Chief Administrator of KATH, received the chairs and said those for KATH would be placed at the Limb Fitting Centre and the wards.
Mr Sammy Ashie, Ashanti Regional Sports Development Officer, received the stadium consignment and commended the association.
Miss Kim Fletcher, Leader of Joni and Friends, hoped the association would continue to assist the disabled.
