Melcom Care Foundation donates to 12 hospitals

The Melcom Care Foundation, the charity wing of the Melcom Group of Companies, has donated 2,400 baby blankets, boxes of drinks and biscuits to 12 hospitals in the Greater Accra Region.

The beneficiary health institutions include the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, the Ridge Hospital, the 37th Military Hospital, the Tema General Hospital and the Police Hospital; each of which received 240 blankets.

The La General Hospital, the Achimota Hospital, the Manna Mission Hospital, the Inkoom Hospital, Lekma Hospital, the Cocoa Clinic, and the Christian Medical Centre received 180 blankets each.

Mothers of all new born babies in the beneficiary heath institutions on Christmas Day, December 25, and on December 31, 2015, and January 1, 2016 would receive a blanket each; while the leftovers would be given out as and when the need would arise.

Mr Godwin Avenorgbo, the Director of Communications, Melcom Group of Companies, at the presentation in Accra, said the Foundation’s support for the health care delivery system in Ghana remained a top priority because the country’s developmental efforts is derived from the inputs of healthy minds in healthy bodies.

He said as part of the Foundation’s project for the year 2016, it would focus on infant care; and has therefore decided to donate 2,400 baby blankets to the 12 health institutions in both the public and private sectors through the Ministry of Health.

He said the donations were meant to change lives; adding that Melcom Care would in 2016 begin a new scheme that would provide basic teaching and learning materials to support civic education.

He explained that the Group had the firm belief that, the development of Ghana’s culture and nationhood could be achieved much more easily when children and the youth are taught values through civic education.

Mr Avenorgbo on behalf of the Group Chairman, Mr Bhagwan Khubchandani, directors, management and staff, wished Ghanaians a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Some of the officials who received the items on behalf of their respective hospitals include Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Dr Marian Tetteh Korboe of the Police Hospital, Madam Georgette Anyetei of Lekma Hospital, Mr Richard Owusu Yeboah, representative of the Christian Medical Centre, Mr Philip Afechi Korto of the Achimota Hospital, and Madam Joyce Ofori Achia of the La General Hospital.

In an interview with the Ghana News Agency, DCOP Dr Korboe, said new born babies needed the blankets to keep them warm and as well as protect them from cold, adding that “one of the things that can kill an infant is cold”.

On behalf of all the hospitals, she commended Melcom Group for the kind gesture, stating that ‘this will go a long way to give life to children”.