Wiawso Anglican Bishop donates medical equipment to three clinics

The Anglican Bishop of Wiawso, Right Reverend Abraham K. Ackah, has presented large quantity of medical equipment worth $200, 000 to the three Anglican clinics within the Diocese.

The items comprised anaesthetic machines with monitors, ultrasound scanning machine, Dinamag patient monitors, operating theatre table, operating theatre lamp, delivery beds and patient trolleys.

The rest are wheel chairs, sets of dental chairs and compressors, hospital beds and mattresses, adult weighing scales, cartons of assorted syringe and needles, cartons of surgical gloves, surgical gowns and laboratory disposables.

The donation was the by-product of the efforts of the Bishop and his wife; Dame Margaret Ackah, who appealed to the Anglican Diocese of Toronto for the package during a visit to the State in Canada.

Food for Hungry, a benevolent organisation based in Canada donated the items, which were supplied to Bodi, Boinzan and Subiri clinics in the Western Region for use by the rural communities who otherwise travel to the big cities for medical attention.

The Director of the organisation, Mr Lindsay Brucks and one Mr Gilbert Salaam masterminded the donation whilst the Anglican Diocese of Toronto paid for the cost of the freight.

Bishop Ackah commended the Diocese of Toronto for the support and Dr Van Otoo of the Regional Health Directorate for clearing the consignment from the port.

The Church of the Province of West Africa is a province of the Anglican Communion, covering 15 Sees in West Africa, specifically Ghana, The Gambia, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

The Dioceses are Accra, Cape-Coast, Koforidua, Kumasi, Sekondi, Sunyani, Tamale, Wiawso and Dunkwa (Ghana), Bo (Sierra Leone), Cameroon (Region Missionaire), Freetown (Sierra Leone), The Gambia, Guinea, Liberia.

The Wiawso Diocese has links with the Diocese of Toronto, Canada, the Diocese of New York, and the Diocese of Los Angeles in the USA as well as the Diocese of Portsmouth in the UK.

Five parishes in the Wiawso Diocese through Bishop Waltham Deanery of the Diocese of Portsmouth are also linked with some dioceses abroad. It is the 9th diocese in Ghana with the consecration and enthronement of its first bishop, Rt Rev Ackah.

The Diocese is co-terminus with the five political districts of: Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai; Wiawso; Juaboso; Bia and Akontombra.