By Mavis Paintsil, Gbawe, Accra
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mrs Elizabeth Kusi Nsiah, at the Adventist Heritage cooperative Fund (AHCoF), has called citizens to support neddy to access good health.
According to her, “we are to make sure that people get good health so that life will be comfortable for them. She said this on the sidelines of a donation to the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital, Gbawe, by the Adventist Cooperative Heritage Fund.
Mrs Elizabeth revealed that, ” we realised they needed a theatre bed, and also they had some people here who can not pay hospital bills,even though they have been discharged, added that those patients can also go home and be with their family and there is a needy fund that they contribute into.
The theatre bed would help to provide the right and conducive conditions for surgeries in the facility.
They donated GHc40,000, theatre bed and a cheque for GHc10,000 to pay the medical bills for need y patients. As part of their annual social responsibilities, the fund supported the community through the hospital, she stated.
The Medical Director (MD),SDA Hospital,Gbawe, Dr Hannah Konadu Adu,for her part said the donation was timely because for a while now, they had a broken surgery bed, they added that they want to make some donations. It was a very significant amount of GHc50,000 and asked whether we had a projects, she continued.
This is being done through mobilising and pooling funds via monthly contributions savings and granting loans at a low interest rate to members.
Dr Adu,for her part said the the theatre was a top priority, therefore that was their choice and fortunately, the money could buy the theatre bed.
She commended the Adventist Heritage cooperative Fund for its benevolence and assured that it would be utilised for its intended purpose.
The hospital bed
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