Two hospitals receive equipment at Kpando

Kpando, (Volta Region) 5 Jan. '99,

Dr Gabriel Tanson, a Ghanaian medical practitioner in California, United States, has donated two aerosol nebulizer equipment worth two million cedis to two health institutions in Kpando to minimise the sufferings of asthma patients. The Margret Maquart Catholic Hospital and St. Patrick hospital, were the beneficiaries. Dr Tanson, who left Ghana 30 years ago, said his aim is to bring relief to asthma patients in the two hospitals. He promised to mobilise funds in the United States to procure more of such simple medical equipment to other hospitals in the country. Dr Lawrence Akoto, medical director of the Saint Patrick hospital, received the equipment on behalf of the two hospitals. GRi