Let’s support the sick - Taifa zone SDA

Passionate appeal has been made by the Taifa Zone of the Accra North East District of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church (SDA) to the general public to support the sick in the various health facilities in the country so as to help speed up their recuperating processes.

This was stated in a statement issued on Saturday, August 22, by the wife of the Dome branch Pastor of the church, Mrs. Christiana Agyenim Boateng, when the Personal Ministry Department of the Taifa Zone, on behalf of the church, donated 30 boxes of liquid soaps, 20 gallons of parazones, toiletries and other assorted items to inmates of the Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital and at the Youth Friendly Health Centre all at Mampong-Akuapem in the Akuapem North District of the Eastern region.

According to her, such philanthropic gestures will go a long way to serve as a booster to make the sick patients feel loved and part of the family and the community even on their sick beds.

The occasion was part of activities commemorating this year's camp meeting of the zone that was held at the Adonten Senior High School at Aburi in the Eastern region from August 18 to 23 on the theme; Revival and the Second Coming of Christ.

She averred that the gesture was the church's modest contribution to help improve the hygienic conditions of the inmates and the hospital since ''good sanitation is a catalyst in facilitating the recovery of sick patients.''

Mrs. Agyenim Boateng noted that members of the church frequently see, hear and read reports of strain on medical facilities in the country, hence, the donation to the hospital.

Speaking to the paper, the Administrator of the hospital who received the items, Mr. Francis Luguniah, appealed to other individuals and groups to come to the aid of the hospital.

He called on philanthropists to adopt some of the wards in the hospital to help ease the financial burden of the hospital.

Earlier in the day, the Pastor in charge of the Dome branch, Pastor Eric Agyenim Boateng, who doubles as the acting District Pastor, encouraged the Adventist Men Ministry to also next year, initiate plans to embark on similar humanitarian exercises as their female counterparts have done this year.

Today discovered that various blocks of the hospital were in dilapidated state that needed urgent rehabilitation.

Some parts of the Out-Patient Department and the theatres have developed deep, serious cracks which put the lives of the patients and the medical personnel in danger.

Thereafter, the group left for the Youth Friendly Health Centre (YFHC) where they donated same items to the health facility.

For her part, the Women's District Leader, Mrs. Judith Akyea Acheampong, indicated that the donation by the church to the health centre was part of their socio-religious responsibility.

The Administrator of the YFHC, Mr. Bryan, Lowe, who was appreciative of the kind gesture from the church gave assurance that the items would be used for the intended purpose and expressed the hope that the Taifa Zone District of the church will remember the patients in their prayers and in their humanity missions.