Kinapharma supports Walewale government hospital in COVID-19 fight

Kinapharma Limited, an indigenous pharmaceutical manufacturing company in collaboration with the Walewale Watermelon Processing Factory has donated ten gallons of sanitizer and a quantity of assorted medicines to the Walewale Government Hospital in the capital of the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region.

The gesture is to support the facility in the fight against the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the municipality.

The medicines included paracetamol tablets and syrup, blood tonic, Aluminum Hydroxide, cough syrup, anti-malaria, Antacid tablets and suspensions, and oral dehydration salt (ORS).

Speaking at a brief ceremony to hand over the items, Mr Mohammed Andani, Area Manager in-charge of Northern Ghana, Kinapharma Limited, said the gesture is in response to the fight against the spread of the COVID-19.

He said the company had already made some donations to the government and some agencies and expressed the hope that the items would go along way to support the hospital to deliver quality health care to the people in the area and also help combat the spread of the coronavirus.

He added that the Watermelon processing factory , a subsidiary of Kinapharma limited decided to come together to donate to the hospital as stakeholders in the municipality.

The head of Pharmacy, Mr Justice Dery who received the items on behalf of the hospital thanked Kinapharma for the gesture and said it would be used for the intended purposes it was donated.

He used the opportunity to appeal to other corporate organisation to come to the aid of the hospital to help fight the spread of the COVID-19.

Background

The donation to the facility is also coming at a time the municipality has recorded its first COVID-19 case in which a 19 year old man with asthma condition passed on at the facility , who is said to have positive for COVID.