Airtel Ghana has donated a motorbike, water pump, standby generators, mattresses and computers to the Adansi Community Clinic in the Western Region to improve their infrastructural and transport needs.
A statement issued in Accra by Maame Dufie Cudjoe, Corporate Communications and External Affairs Manager, said the gifts forms part of season three of Airtel’s award winning television show, Airtel Touching Lives, which run on the theme: “Make your change.”
It said the Adansi community clinic featured on the popular television show as a community clinic with many infrastructural and human resource problems as a total number of 10 staff serve more than 3,000 people in and around the community.
The statement said the clinic had no good water supply, no electricity and no means of transport to aid nurses in outreach programmes and other transport needs of the clinic.
The staff of the clinic, hitherto, had to go through the ordeal of carrying medical supplies on their heads and trekking to and from villages and outreach centres to offer health care to the villagers and invalids, a situation which affects the quality of service given, it added.
This, it said, made Airtel Ghana, standing by its strong commitment to serve communities in which it operates, to provide the clinic with a water pump, standby generator, computers, patients mattresses and a motorbike to improve the infrastructural needs of this viable but needy clinic to enable it serve the Adansi and surrounding communities better.
Mr Emmanuel Owusu-Sarfo, Zonal Business Manager for Airtel Ghana in the Region, in presenting the items to the clinic said: “Airtel Ghana was touched and inspired by the efforts of the staff of the clinic to improvise and go the extra mile of extending basic health assistance to the doorstep of patients in remote communities.
“We are here, in that regard, to offer our support with these items to help the clinic in their outreach programme. This would definitely enhance the work of the passion driven and hardworking staff of the Adansi clinic as they continue to deliver health services in remote communities,” it said
Mrs Joyce Y. Mensah, representing the Mporhor District Health Director, thanked the telecommunication company saying: “We are very grateful to Airtel Ghana through their social responsibility initiative, Airtel Touching Lives, for this presentation.”
Source: GhanaWeb
