AFS Ghana donates to Korle-bu Cancer Ward

"The fault in our stars", a movie by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber in 2014, has inspired the AFS Ghana School Club at Achimota School to raise funds for children suffering from cancer.

The fund raising ceremony was meant for the Korle-bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) to aid in treatment, considering how expensive cancer medications are.

This led to the club members organising car washing fundraiser at Pamas car wash and food court at West Legon in Accra.

A statement issued in Accra and copied to Ghana News Agency said the club members managed to raise GH?1200.00 from the car wash event.

On Saturday September 5, some members of the Club and Staff of AFS Intercultural Exchange Programmes, Ghana presented a cheque for GH? 1200.00 to the Principal Nursing Officer Enyo Bosumprah at the Children's Cancer Ward of the KBTH.

Mrs Bosumprah thanked the Club members for the kind gesture and said: "Considering how expensive cancer drugs and investigations are, gestures like this comes as a huge relief.”

Dr Lorna Awo Renner of the Paediatric Oncology Unit, Department Child Health of KBTH, expressed gratitude for the gesture.

In an interaction with the Club members, she said cancer in children is very curable and that early detection is very important.

She said, unfortunately nearly half of the children detected with cancer stop treatment half way because their parents cannot afford the treatment and the drugs are also not covered by the National Health Insurance Scheme.