A large consignment of hospital equipment has been donated by GaDangme Europe (GDEu) - natives from Greater Accra Region in Ghana resident in Europe - to some Government Hospitals and Polyclinics in the Greater Accra Region. The goods that include hospital beds, mattresses, wheel chairs, pair of clutches, zimmer frames (walking aids), sterilising pans, oxygen masks, drip stands, surgical tables and chairs, assorted medical equipment, shoes and clothes were presented on behalf of GDEu by its Representative in Accra, Maj. Gen. (Retired) Nii Carl Coleman, at the Ministry of Health in Accra. The GDEu marked out 8 hospitals and polyclinics in the Greater Accra Region, namely: Abokobi Polyclinic, Danfa Polyclinic, Pantang Mental Hospital, Asylum Down Psychiatric Hospital (Accra), Atua Hospital (Somanya), Ningo Hospital, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital-Emergency Ward (adults), Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital Children Emergency Ward & Korle-Bu Chief Executive) as beneficiaries and provided a list detailing quantities to each hospital.

Receiving the goods on behalf of the beneficiaries, Mr. Joseph Yile-Chireh, Minister for Health, thanked GaDangme Europe for their generous donation which he said will go a very long way in assisting the hospitals in delivering quality health services. Other members of GDEu present at the presentation were: Isaac Nii Kotey Robertson (GDEu Asst. Secretary – from England), Alhaji Abbey (President of ‘Bokemei’ Foundation and a member of GDEu Advisory Board - resident in Holland), Pastor Quartey - member of GDEu Advisory Board (from Hamburg), Josuah Lamptey, (member of GDEU from Italy), Nii-Bi Ofori Quaye, Naa Dede Akrong (from Obonu FM, Tema) and Willie Adams.

The President of GDEu, Nii Tetteh Okoso Mensah, and his Vice - Sarah Naa Adoley Coleman - who were earlier in Accra to facilitate documentations and clearing of the goods from the Tema Port expressed optimism about GDEU working on a course of helping the Region with its development projects. The President also noted the crucial role played by Dr. Benjamin Kumbour - former Minister of Health - in granting GDEu import duty exemption for the consignment.

The President said: “This initiative marks a new chapter between GaDangme Europe and the Ministry of Health, our local hospitals and polyclinics. Members of GaDangme Europe sees this initiative as a beginning of a campaign of putting something very relevant and useful back to the society, the neighbourhood and the community which raised us to be what we are today. Putting something tangible back into that society, identifying and helping to find lasting solution to the community’s concerns is at the heart of what GaDangme Europe stands for – helping to relieve and alleviate poverty through sustained development in the form of social enterprise”.

Naa Adoley on her part said she is grateful to the men and women from the GaDangme Association in Hamburg from where the equipment were shipped to Ghana commending members of the group who defied a heavy snow fall on the day of packing the goods into its container for shipment.

“We are all helping on a good course and thanks to all those members of GDEu who contributed financially to help ship the goods home,” she said. The GDEu Vice President also lauded Nii Dade, a native of GaDangme land, whose efforts enabled GDEU to acquire the consignment of hospital equipment and medical supplies from Hamburg, Germany.