Action Chapel, partners support disaster victims
Action Chapel International (ACI) and its partners have donated assorted medical supplies to the 37 Military Hospital in Accra, for the treatment of the June 3 fire and flood disaster victims .
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The church, through the Compassion for Disaster Relief Fund, set up to support the victims and hospitals treating them, presented the medical supplies worth GH¢50,000 to the hospital last Wednesday.
They included cartons of surgical and disposal gloves, boxes of bandages and gallons of detergents (detol and parazone), cartons of syringes and fentanyl injections.
The donation was in fulfilment of a promise made by the church and its partners - National Association of Charismatic and Christian Churches (NACCC) and the Whitaker Group — which set up the fund Bishop Ebenezer Obodai, an Executive Bishop of the church, who handed over the items, said the donation was meant to ease the suffering of the victims.
“We want to say a big thank you for what you are doing. We appreciate all your great sacrifices and all your great efforts to care for the patients. May God continue to bless and empower you, and may God supply everything the hospital needs to take care of all of them,” he said.
Bishop Obodai urged members of the public to do all they could to be good citizens to prevent the recurrence of floods and other catastrophes.
“We have a personal responsibility to protect the environment and save lives and property. If we throw refuse into the drains, it will certainly choke them and cause floods,” he said.
The Commanding Officer of the 37 Military Hospital, Colonel Samuel Adjei, commended the church and its partners for the support which he said would go a long way in helping to treat the disaster victims.
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21 people discharged
Meanwhile, the hospital last Monday discharged 21 victims of the fire disaster that occurred at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle when the Goil Fuel Station exploded during a heavy downpour. A flood resulting from the downpour also caused some deaths, resulting in 159 deaths, injury to many others and the destruction of property.
Twenty-three others are still on admission at the hospital. The Commanding Officer said those on admission were responding to treatment.
In response to the disaster, the ACI and its partners set up the fund, which was started with an initial GH¢70,000 and $10,000, made up of GH¢50,000 from the ACI and GH¢20,000 from the NACCC and the Whitaker Group.
Donation to the fund is received at all Fidelity Bank branches.
Writer’s email:seth.bokpe@graphic.com.gh