MyHelp-YourHelp marks 7th anniversary with GH¢70,000 donation to patients of Sogakope Hospital
A Christian non-governmental organisation, MyHelp-YourHelp Foundation, on December, 26, 2025, provided GH¢70,000 support to patients at the maternity unit of the Sogakope District Hospital.
The donation was intended to help settle medical bills of patients receiving care at the facility.
The intervention involved members of the foundation working with hospital management to identify mothers admitted to the maternity ward whose bills qualified for support. Payments were made directly at the hospital’s accounts office, while another group of members visited the ward to distribute hampers and interact with the women.
The support was extended beyond the maternity unit to include patients in the children’s ward, the accident and emergency unit, as well as the male and female wards, with the total value of bills settled amounting to GH¢70,000.
In addition, the foundation donated 50 hampers made up of assorted baby items valued at about GH¢35,000 to mothers at the maternity ward.
The foundation also donated food items worth about GH¢30,000 to staff of the hospital. The items included 30 bags of 25 kilogramme rice, 10 boxes of corned beef, 10 boxes of sardines, 110 bottles of cooking oil and eight boxes of spaghetti. The items were presented to nurses, doctors, matrons, midwives and other staff of the hospital.
In addition to the maternity-related support, the foundation also settled an extra GH¢10,000 medical bill for a cancer patient who had been admitted to the hospital.
The Head of Administration at Sogakope District Hospital, Mr Samuel Omega, described the support as timely, noting that the facility serves patients from a wide catchment area, including communities outside Sogakope such as Ada, Big Ada and Sege.
Mr Omega said unpaid bills remained a recurring challenge for the hospital, disclosing that more than 100 patients were currently listed as owing on the facility’s records. He explained that the GH¢70,000 support would help reduce part of the outstanding debt burden.
As part of the process, some beneficiaries were contacted at home and asked to return to the hospital after verification for their bills to be settled.
The President and Founder of MyHelp-YourHelp Foundation, Mr Nicholas Cofie, said the organisation selected Sogakope District Hospital after assessing several health facilities.
Mr Cofie explained that the hospital was chosen because of its high delivery rate, with between 100 and 120 births recorded each month, as well as the financial challenges many women face when seeking maternity care.
He said the intervention formed part of the foundation’s seventh anniversary activities and reflected its guiding principle of supporting the needy and less privileged. He added that the foundation aligns its work with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals related to health and well-being.
Mr Cofie said over the past seven years, the foundation had carried out more than 20 projects across the country, including school renovations, borehole rehabilitation, feeding programmes, health outreach activities and support for orphanages and other vulnerable groups.
Mr Omega said the hospital’s maternity ward had become overstretched due to rising patient numbers and appealed for support towards expansion to improve care for mothers in the district and surrounding communities.
