Rev. Counselor Peter Kwaku Yeboah (left) in a photograph with some KATH management members during the ceremony
A KUMASI-based tele-evangelist has done a life-saving act by constructing a mechanised borehole to supply free potable water to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi.
Rev. Counselor Peter Kwaku Yeboah of Royal TV in Kumasi, the benefactor, constructed the borehole on the premises of KATH about 10 years ago and the hospital’s staff and patients have been relying on it for water.
Few years ago, there was the need for the top medical facility in the northern sector of the country to expand, so a new infrastructural project was constructed at the very site where the borehole was located.
Considering how the original borehole had supported KATH’s staff and patients over the years, the hospital’s management therefore decided to construct a new borehole to honour the famous tele-evangelist.
The KATH Director of Administration, Mr. Fred Effah-Yeboah, speaking at the recommissioning ceremony, said the construction of the borehole to honour the tele-evangelist shows that KATH values its helpers.
“The mechanised borehole, since its original construction over a decade ago by Rev. Counselor Peter Kwaku Yeboah, has been a blessing to this facility, helping to curb water crisis at KATH in the past.
“The need for the recommissioning arose when the original borehole had to be decommissioned to make way for the construction of a new block, as the two structures occupied the same site.
“The management of KATH therefore decided to reconstruct the mechanised borehole in a new location to honour the donor, Rev. Counselor Peter Kwaku Yeboah,” Mr. Effah-Yeboah explained.
He also called for more donations to the ongoing “Heal Komfo Anokye Project,” a comprehensive initiative which is aimed at upgrading and modernising the hospital’s old Gee Blocks to enhance healthcare.
Rev. Yeboah expressed his profound gratitude to the KATH management for the thoughtful initiative of restoring his original project to ensure constant water supply in the hospital.
Recounting the motivation behind his decade-old donation, he said, “God dropped it on my heart to help the hospital by providing water assistance,” which eventually helped KATH to avert water crisis.
Rev. Yeboah called for the highest maintenance culture so the borehole would last for future generations to also benefit from it, urging the public to also assist KATH.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah, Kumasi