Rotary Club donates to Gomoa Nyanyanor

Accra, Dec.9, GNA - The Rotary Club of Accra South on Saturday presented medical items worth about 20 million cedis to the Gomoa Nyanyanor community health post in the Central region.

The club, with the help of volunteer doctors and nurses from Korle Bu and 37 Military Hospital, provided free medical screening and de-worming for the community.

The medical items, included vitamins, de-wormers, pain killers, anti-biotic, female condoms, cotton wool, anti-malaria drugs, eye-drops. Mr. Amarkai Amarteifio, President of the Rotary club of Accra South, presenting the items said the presentation was part of the club's community outreach programme organized every year. He said the Rotary Club was a humanitarian service organization that identifies the needs of its community and environs and find solutions to them.

Mr. Amarteifio said the club was soliciting funds to complete the Nyanyanor community library next year and stock them with books to help cultivate the habit of reading in the children.

They would also build a borehole for the people of Nyanyanor to help provide a source of potable water as their present source of water was being contaminated with chemicals. Mr. Amarteifio said as a follow-up, they would in January next year donate medical equipment to the community clinic from the 5,000 dollars grant given to the club by the Australia High Commission. "This outreach is part of contribution from members of our club in making life better for the fishing village," he added. Nana Obeng Wiabo V, chief of Gomoa Nyanyanor who received the items on behalf of the clinic said lack of potable water was the worry of his people and that he was very pleased that the club had decided to come to their aid.

He said because of lack of good drinking water, they are always faced with health problems such as stomach pains and worm infections, with children the most affected Nana Wiabo therefore, expressed gratitude and appreciation to members of the club for their kind gesture and hoped that such gestures are extended to other needy communities.

Mrs. Juliana Graham, Senior Midwifery Superintendent of the community clinic said the clinic was under-staffed without a doctor, ambulance and only one permanent nurse and a ward assistant. She therefore appealed to the Ghana Health Service and the government to come to their aid. 09 Dec. 2006