Amerley Ollennu Awua-Asamoa
In collaboration with the Global Medical Aid, a Danish non-governmental organisation, Ghana’s Ambassador to Denmark, Ms. Amerley Ollennu Awua-Asamoa, has secured medical equipment to support the medical outreach programmes of the Rebecca Foundation.
The items include 200 hospital beds and mattresses, respiratory equipment and 21 bedside cabinets, donated by Sygehus Sonderjylland Hospital in Denmark.
Since her appointment as Ghana’s Ambassador to Denmark, Ms. Awua-Asamoa has partnered several Danish institutions to donate drugs and medical equipment worth in excess of $10 million to some institutions in Ghana, including the Rebecca Foundation, Ghana Baptist Convention Medical Centre and the Wenchi Methodist Hospital.
This is in line with keeping with her personal commitment to contribute to the improvement of basic healthcare and infrastructure in Ghana.
At a ceremony to inspect the medical equipment before shipment from Denmark to Ghana, the CEO of Sygehus Sonderjylland Hospital, Peter Fosgrau, described as timely the request from the ambassador for medical support for Ghanaian hospitals, and hoped that the hospital equipment would be beneficial to Ghanaians.
Ms. Awua-Asamoa was grateful to the management of the hospital and promised the commitment of the Government of Ghana to improve health infrastructure for all Ghanaians.
“The Government of Ghana is fully committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing for all, and this donation will draw the nation closer to realising that dream,” she said.
In February, Ms. Awua-Asamoa led a medical team to explore possible areas of support in Ghana’s healthcare sector. The team also paid a courtesy call on Ghana’s First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo, whose NGO, the Rebecca Foundation, is doing tremendous work in medical outreach across the country. The First Lady commended the ambassador for her initiatives and praised the Global Medical Aid for their continuous support to health facilities in Ghana. She called for closer collaboration to make the dream of improving access to world-class healthcare in Ghana a reality.