WVI donates medical equipment to four hospitals

Hweehwee (E/R), Nov. 19, GNA- The Kwahu Area Development Programme (KADP) of the World Vision International (WVI), Ghana, has presented a large quantity of medical equipment valued at 150 million cedis to four hospitals in the Eastern Region to supplement government's efforts at enhancing effective health care delivery system in the country.

The items were donated by WVI partners in the US and they included orthopaedic systems, and theatre and laboratory equipment.

The beneficiary institutions were the Atibie Kwahu Government Hospital, Nkawkaw Holy Family Hospital, the Koforidua St Joseph Hospital and Donkorkrom Presbyterian Hospital.

Presenting the items to representatives of the beneficiary hospitals at Hweehwee on Tuesday, the Kwahu Area Development Manager, Mr Theophilus Nkansah, said the WVI is also at the forefront in the fight against the HIV/AIDS in schools, churches and communities in the areas of prevention, care and support.

He said in its campaign, the organisation's main focus had been on behavioural change, as well as support for persons living with HIV/AIDS by providing food supplements, approved herbal medicine, drugs, home based care and counselling services.

Mr Nkansah said WVI was also supporting HIV/AIDS child orphans, as well as the children of living victims by providing them with basic education, health, material and other needs to complete their education.

He said the Kwahu area office was assisting 20 brilliant but needy children to complete their secondary education in a number of second cycle schools in the district.

The General Manager of the Donkorkrom Presbyterian Hospital, Mr Fred Effah-Yeboah, thanked the WVI, Ghana, for the donation, and said the items will go a long way to enhance effective health delivery in the Afram Plains in particular and the region as a whole. He stated that health delivery in the Afram Plains had assumed a complex dimension and called on all stakeholders to co-operate with churches, NGOs and the government to cater for the health needs of the people in the area. Mr Effah-Yeboah said due to the peculiar nature of the Afram Plains, the hospital finds it difficult to cater for the 135,000 people in the area due to the high rate of poverty and difficulties of accessibility to the remote communities.