ASA Savings and Loans gives relief to Pokuase Health Centre

ASA Savings and Loans has donated essential medical items to the Pokuase Health Centre in the Greater Accra Region.

The items worth GH¢18,000 included wheelchairs, commode wheelchair, digital thermometer, glucometer, weight scale, baby scale, detergent and bedsheets.

The gesture forms part of the company’s corporate social responsibility initiative, following requests from the facility that served many of its customers.

The Area Manager for ASA Savings and Loans, Ofankor South Division, Samuel Buanda Odoom, explained that the donation was inspired by the company’s observation that most of their customers visited the facility when unwell. 

“As part of our corporate social responsibility and in response to the petition submitted by the company at the hospital's request, we decided to support the hospital in better serving our customers,” he stated.

He advised the centre’s administration to take good care of the items to prolong their lifespan.

The Physician Assistant in charge of the Pokuase Health Centre, Christiana Akolbila, expressed gratitude following a timely donation of medical equipment from ASA Savings and Loans, emphasising that it was a “much-needed intervention” for the facility.

She revealed the harsh realities facing the health centre, where space constraints had forced patients to receive treatment on verandas, compromising their privacy and dignity. 

She explained that the facility’s challenges extended beyond space issues such that critical units, including eye care and dental services, were compelled to share cramped quarters and operate on alternative days due to inadequate accommodation. 

She added that essential laboratory equipment, including microscopes that had deteriorated over time, desperately needed replacement.

Mrs Akolbila said appeals to various institutions had gone unanswered until ASA Savings stepped forward to provide support.