NGO assists clinic with 50 million cedis

Tamale, June 29, GNA - Doctors World Wide (DWW), a British NGO operating in Northern Ghana dedicated to providing quality medical care to people in deprived communities on Wednesday presented a cheque for 50 million cedis to the authorities of Haj Adams Clinic in Tamale for early completion of ongoing work.

Haji Adams Clinic is privately owned and it was offering charitable services to vulnerable people in the Northern Region but lacked adequate office space to operate and attend to serious ailments. As part of DWW programmes of accessing the health needs and situations in Northern Ghana, two executive members visited Haj Adams Clinic and expressed the need to support management to complete a structure that started some seven years ago and could not be completed due to lack of adequate funds.

Dr. Ibrar Majid, team leader of DWW, presenting the cheque said, the assistance was based on the fact that poor and other vulnerable people could be treated at Haj Adams Clinic free which was highly commendable.

He described the health structures in the region as nothing to write home about and said DWW would brainstorm with the Northern Ghana Aid (NOGAID), a partner Tamale based NGO to see what form of health assistance to give to the region.

Alhaji Adam Issahaku, Director of Haji Adam Clinic expressed gratitude about the gesture and gave the assurance that the money would be able to complete the clinic so that many people could benefit from health care delivery there.

He appealed to other benevolent organisations and individuals to assist the clinic to commence work on its first and second phases, which would include, maternity unit, consulting room, theatre and laboratories.

Earlier this year, Dr. Kani Torun, an eminent surgeon and a Chief Executive officer of Doctors World Wide (DWW), paid a five-day working visit to the Northern Region to see how best quality medical care could reach people in deprived communities.

The visit, which was at the instance of the Northern Ghana Aid (NOGAID), collaborated with NOGAID to see how best doctors from the US and Britain could be posted to deprived communities in Northern Ghana to save lives.