TOR workers present money to Cardiothoracic Centre

Tema, Oct. 17, GNA - Workers of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) have presented a cheque for 25 million cedis to the Ghana National Cardiothoracic Centre at a ceremony in Tema on Thursday. The amount represented contributions deducted from their salaries to assist the Centre.

Mr Robert Forson, Chief Executive Officer, presenting the amount explained that after the launch of the appeal for assistance, the workers decided to make monthly contributions for the Centre. He said the deductions, which amounted to 800,000 cedis a month was done for the past three years.

Mr Forson said TOR workers would continue to contribute until it reached another substantial amount for presentation to the centre. Dr Lawrence Agyeman Sereboe, a Cardiothoracic Surgeon Consultant, expressed gratitude to the TOR workers and called on other workers to emulate them.

He emphasised that if workers contribute between 500 and 1,000 cedis monthly to the Fund, many lives would be saved at the Centre, because Ghanaians who require heart surgery can easily get it. Dr Sereboe said heart surgery was expensive because apart from the stalled equipment, every component used is discarded after the operation.

Among those present at the ceremony was, Mr Kwame Sarpong, Deputy Managing Director Finance and Administration.