The University of Virginia (UVA) Health System has donated a quantity of medical supplies to the Ghana Association of Charlottesville in the United States of America.

The medical supplies worth about $20,000 were handed over to the Chairman of the Ghana Association of Charlottesville, Nana Akyeampong Ghartey by the Clinical Coordinator of the University of Virginia Health System’s Medical Equipment Recovery of Clean Inventory (MERCI) Program, Trena Berg (RN).

The Clinical Coordinator of the MERCI Program said the UVA Health System is partnering with the Ghana Association of Charlottesville to give medical supplies to hospitals and other health centers in Ghana. She added that the donation was also to deepen the sister-city relationship between Charlottesville and Winneba in the Central Region of Ghana and that the MERCI Program will continue to make more medical supplies available to health institutions in Ghana through the Ghana Association of Charlottesville.

On his part, the Chairman of the Ghana Association of Charlottesville, Nana Akyeampong Ghartey expressed his gratitude on behalf of the Association to the UVA Health System and noted that the medical supplies would go a long way to assist in the health delivery system in Ghana.

Nana Ghartey disclosed that the Mayor of Charlottesville, Dave Norris, would be traveling to Ghana in May this year to cut the sod for the commencement of work on the construction of a library complex in Winneba, and also officially present some of the medical supplies to the Winneba Hospital.

By Augustine Arthur, Charlottesville/USA