MCHH takes delivery of food items

Kumasi, June 30, GNA - The Maternal and Child Health Hospital (MCHH), in Kumasi, has taken delivery of assorted food items to support the upkeep of malnourished children there.

These included bags of maize, rice, sugar, soya beans, groundnuts and cartons of chocolate drink.

It was a donation from the Serwaa Ampem Foundation for Children (SAFC), a charitable NGO, run by the wife of the Asantehene, Lady Julia Osei Tutu, and dedicated to the welfare of HIV/AIDS infected children and other vulnerable kids.

Mr Fred Kyei-Sarpong, Marketing Coordinator of the Otumfuo Charity Foundation, making the presentation, said it followed an earlier visit, where it was realized that the facility needed these to take good care of the children.

He pledged continued support, adding that, the Foundation would soon identify some orphans there to give them special support.

Madam Beatrice Boatemaa Owusu, Project Coordinator of SAFC, spoke of the need to ensure that all children, either HIV/AIDS infected or not, enjoyed improved quality of life through strengthening of care and support programs.

The Foundation was therefore making every effort to provide protection for children and the elimination of all forms of discrimination, Under its 10-year action plan, education and health needs of orphaned children and the less fortunate in the society would be addressed, Madam Florence Duker, Deputy Director of Nursing Services (DDNS) at the Hospital, said the facility established as a rehabilitation centre for malnourished, abandoned and orphaned babies, was finding it difficult to generate funds to prepare food supplements and therapeutic milk for the children.

They were therefore grateful for the gifts and appealed to other organizations and individuals to emulate.