By Bernard Yaw Ashiadey
The Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) has donated a cheque for GHc 88,534.99 to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) and the Ridge Hospital in Accra as part of its corporate social responsibility activities.
The donation was in response to a call by the Eye Department of the KBTH and Moorfields Eye Project to raise an amount of $500,000 as Ghana’s contribution to help in the construction of an Ophthalmology Centre to cater for eye patients, and also train ophthalmologists for Ghana and West Africa.
The KBTH received an amount of GHc 75,750 for the project, while the Ridge Hospital received GHc 12,784.99 for the procurement of Sonopuls equipments.
In a speech read on his behalf, Deputy Managing Director, GCB, Samuel Sarpong, said eye patients need the best of health care so that their recuperation process will be faster and better -- so the need to provide the hospitals with these donations.
“The donation to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital is for the Moorfields Eye Project of the University of Ghana Medical School towards the improvement of eye, care delivery. The donation to the Ridge Hospital is for the procurement of Sonopuls equipment for the Electrotherapy Unit which is under the Physiotherapy Department of the Hospital.
“I understand this unit handles neuro-treatments, physical therapy, orthopedic physiotherapy, pediatric physiotherapy and general healthcare and this will play a significant role in its work,” he said.
He added that GCB’s approach to the health sector considers trends that are rapidly changing health care practice and patient care demands throughout the world. Increased medical specialisation and advances in pharmacology, diagnosis and surgical techniques are making possible dramatic improvements in patient care.
“Unless we make significant investments in the health sector in terms of new equipment and facilities, our health sector will fall further behind in meeting the needs of Ghanaians.”
The Head of Eye Department, KBTH, Dr. Stephen Akafu, said the Moorfields Eye Project has been in Ghana since 2004 and with support from the West African College of Surgeons (WACS), has trained more than 300 ophthalmic nurses and 60 surgeons in Ghana.
The Moorfields Project seeks to bring all the quality services that are offered in developed countries to Ghana. There are about 2.4million blind people in West Africa out of which 24,000 are Ghanaians, so the Ophthalmic Centre will help improve the quality of healthcare, especially eye care.
The Chief Executive, KBTH, Professor Nii Otu Nartey, and Dr. Gaetan Adangabey, Head of the Physiotherapy Department of the Ridge Hospital received the cheques on behalf of their hospitals and expressed their appreciation to GCB, promising to use the money for its intended purpose.
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