Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah and Nana Yaa Konadu presenting the items to a nurse
The Akyemansa District in the Eastern Region has received health equipment worth GH¢200,000 from an NGO known as Nana’s Project.
The equipment include 100 boxes of gloves, wheel chairs, operation beds, operation kits, among others, are to be distributed to eight health centres in the district to aid in quality health delivery.
The District Health Director, Gifty Sunu, who received the items, commended the NGO for the support and pleaded with the government and other organisations to also come to their aid.
On her part, the founder of Nana’s Project, Nana Yaa Konadu, explained that she found out that the health centres in the Akyemansa District were lacking a lot of health delivery apparatuses, so she decided to support with the items in order to help improve the health delivery system for the people of the Akyemansa District.
The Member of Parliament of Ofoase/Ayirebi Constituency and the Deputy Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, who was at the short ceremony as MP for the area, cited that the entire district which hitherto did not have a single qualified medical practitioner can now boast of two medical assistants and also promised that they were making efforts to get a medical doctor for the district.
He pleaded with the health officials to put the equipment into good use and bemoaned the poor maintenance culture among some state institutions.
Mr Oppong-Nkrumah promised to use his office to monitor such sensitive items so that they will not go waste.
He also pleaded with other NGOs and philanthropists to come to the aid of the district.
The MP added that his outfit will continue to lobby for such initiatives and projects to the district towards the improvement of health delivery in the constituency.
FROM Daniel Bampoe, Akyemansa