05-11-2011 Bolgatanga Regional Hospital Receives Medical Equipments Worth GH¢10,000

The management of the Ghana Rural Opportunities for Women (GROW), an NGO working in the area of women empowerment in the Upper East Region has donated medical equipment worth GH¢10,000 to the Bolgatanga Regional hospital to improve health care delivery in the region. The equipments include drip stand, surgical supplies, weighing scale, measuring cylinders, surgical gowns, OPD trolley, orthopaedic instruments, as well as laboratory and wound care supplies. The Project facilitator of GROW, Vida Yakong, stated that management of GROW in partnership with some students at University of British Columbia in Canada saw it as an honour to assist the hospitals. She said the donation which forms part of GROW’s corporate social responsibility is targeted at addressing issues of increased malaria cases and high maternal and infant deaths in the region and the country as a whole. Similar donations according to her had been undertaken in some deprived health facilities in the region including the Nangodi health centre and the Sakote CHP zone among others. Other health facilities she assured would receive their fair share of the gesture. Mrs Yakong added that GROW as a local based NGO gives priority attention to women of rural communities especially in the area of girl child development and health and had since its inception in 2007 provided financial and material assistance to women in most deprived communities of Northern Ghana. Their main objective she indicated is to basically assist vulnerable women and children grow positively to achieve their full potentials in life. She outlined plans of assisting some health institutions in the region with medical reading materials to enhance their knowledge. According to her deprived Schools and orphanages would not be left out.  The Medical Superintendent of the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital, Dr Peter Baffoe, who received the items on behalf of management, expressed appreciation to GROW and its foreign partners for the gesture and gave the assurance that the items would be well maintained to improve health care delivery in the hospital. He passionately appealed to other well meaning Ghanaians and organizations to emulate the gesture and come to the aid of the health facilities in the region.  

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