SEWA Foundation, an NGO committed to ending child trafficking, slavery and child abuse in Ghana, has donated food items and 200 plastic chairs worth GH? 10,000.00, to the Department of Child Health of the Korle-bu Teaching Hospital.
The Organisation also presented some prepared meals as lunch for the patients and their caregivers.
Mr Jones Owusu Yeboah, President of the SEWA Foundation at the donation on Wednesday, said the gesture was their contribution towards the provision of quality health care and to put some smiles on the faces of the patients and their caregivers.
According to him the donation was a start-up to a bigger partnership between the Foundation and the Department, to the ensure renovations and expansion of the HIV and AIDS wards, emergency units and as well as the pharmacy.
He said the SEWA Foundation is also spearheading the establishment of a National Children’s Emergency Health Fund, to cater for the immediate health needs of patients whose parents for a reason may need such assistance.
This, he said, would reduce the instances where some parents would have to be featured with their sick children in the media to solicit for public support for medical health.
“We will soon launch the fund, with the initial support coming from our current sponsors who include the Ange Hill Hotel, the Bush Canteen and VIP Commercial bus drivers,” he said.
Mr Yeboah called on corporate institutions and individuals to pay regular visits to the hospital to learn more about their challenges to be able to provide the needed assistance, and also to donate to the fund when established in order to build up ready financial resources save lives.
Ms Joyce Oppong-Ayisi, a Principal Nursing Officer at the Department of Child Health, who received the donation, thanked the Foundation and its sponsors for the kind gesture.
She said medical personnel at the Department on regular basis have to donate out of their limited personal resources to enable some parents to purchase the prescribed medicines to commence treatment of their children.
She expressed gratitude to the Foundation for also conceiving the idea of establishing a National Children’s Emergency Health Fund, which would save both needy parents and caregivers from the agony of not being able to save the life of a child due to financial constraints.
She said the Department is also ready to partner with any organisation that wishes to support in the renovation and expansion of the various wards and other facilities, for better accommodation and effective service of clients.
