Centre for Legacy Promotion Awards 84-year-old Midwife

An 84-year-old retired midwife, Madam Rosebud Gaissie, have been honoured for her long humanitarian service to the region in particular, and Ghana by the Centre for Legacy Promotion (CelP).

Madam Gaissie after her active service with the Ghana Health Service as a midwife over 20 years ago, had still decided to offer her services to pregnant women at Chiraa where she had sited a private Midwifery Centre.

Madam Gaisie did active 55 years service for the nation, starting first as a classroom teacher and later attended nursing training college to be trained as a midwife.

At a special programme organised by CelP to give recognition to Madam Gaisie, Deputy Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister, Justice Samuel Adjei said he was personally happy and thought other discerning citizens would share the same view, that it was always far better to honour the living than the dead.

In his view, the expected impact of any award or honour bestowed on the dead would not serve the needed purpose than when the same action was done for the beneficiary at the time when he or she was alive, expressing the hope that the honour done to Madam Gaissie would serve as an encouragement to, not only workers at the GHS, but those at the entire Civil and Public Services, to continue to work harder.

Mr. Adjei praised CelP, a newly-formed NGO in Sunyani, and expressed the hope that the Management would continue to nose around in the region to look for similar dedicated, committed, and selfless people of the region and bestow deserving honours on them as done to Madam Gaissie.

Nana Bofotia Boaamponsem, Krontihene of the Sunyani Traditional Area and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CelP said his organisation came into being only two years ago, adding its core mandate was to list such awardees in the Organisation’s ‘Legacy Book Of Records’ just on the same line as the Guinness Book Of Records already existing in the country.

Nana Bofotia said: “It is better to honour a human being while alive and not after his or her death”, he stressed.

As part of the programme, Mr. Ignatious Baffour-Awuah, Member of Parliament (MP) for Sunyani West on behalf of CelP launched a Rosebud Gaisie Foundation, and said the money to be accrued from it would be used to support Girls' Science education in the area.

Barima Afari Minta the Second, Chief of Chiraa, said the emergence of Legacy Book Of Records in Brong-Ahafo should spur people of the region on, to do their best to promote the region and themselves in all spheres of life.