Staff of KBTH entering the staff welfare busK
A Toyota bus has been procured by the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) Staff Welfare Club to facilitate activities of its members.
The 32-seater bus costing a little over GH¢420,000 will be used by the members of the club primarily to convey them to and from welfare-related activities outside the hospital.
Steven Corquaye, head of the welfare club, who spoke with the media during the official dedication of the bus at the administration of the teaching hospital, said the bus is the second most pressing need of members of the welfare club.
“The first thing that members of the welfare requested was for the health of the staff. We have been able to cooperate with management of the hospital to put in a medicare which caters for the health of the staff,” he revealed.
Mr. Corquaye further stated that executives of the club, therefore, engaged management of Toyota Ghana to procure the bus for its members.
“Today by God’s grace we have been able to mobilise the monies that we collected from them to get this bus we know that it is not the bigger things that we want but we believe that this is a starter and hope that corporate organisations and other institutions will come to the aid of Korle-Bu,” he added.
“The welfare package demands that we support each other in times of bereavement but when we are going to funerals, for instance, we have to sometimes go and beg other departments or go to the open market and get a bus for Korle-Bu, but with this bus we can support each other better,” Mr. Corquaye explained.
He, however, appealed to corporate organisations to support the club so they could get additional buses which would transport workers of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital who live far from the health facility to work.
“A lot of our staff members live outside the hospital and they have to commute long distances everyday to this place. If we are able to get two, three or four of these buses to bring them to the hospital so that will motivate them to do more to provide excellent clinical care,” he added.
By Jamila Akweley Okertchiri