Presbyterian Relief Service supports health service

The Presbyterian Relief Service and Development (PRSD), a non-governmental organisation of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, has donated relief items to the Ga South Municipal Health Directorate to support the treatment of cholera in the area.

The items included 200 pieces of mosquito nets, 50 pieces of blankets, three boxes of Key bar soap, 32 pieces of bed sheets, 90 bottles of liquid soaps and two  bales of used clothing all valued at GH¢3,755.

Making the presentation, the Chief Executive Officer of the Presbyterian Relief Services who is also the National Director of the Development and Social Services of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Rev. Daniel Edmund Kofi Asante, said the donation was the church’s widow’s mite to  help improve  the health of cholera patients who had been admitted to the various health centres in the municipality.

Humanitarian gesture

Mr Emmanuel Ankamah, National Coordinator of PRSD, said the PRSD was an agency of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana under its Department of Development and Social Services. 

He said the organisation was registered as a non-profit agency through which the church promoted activities such as health; education; assisting the  rural communities in leadership development; disaster preparedness and management; empowerment of women and the  youth in achieving sustainable income, among others. 

Mr Ankamah said these were geared towards contributing to Ghana’s efforts to achieving the global Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Receiving the items on behalf of the health centres, the Ga South Municipal Director of Health Services, Ms Jacqueline Sfarijlani, expressed appreciation and appealed to other churches and organisations to emulate the Presbyterian Church.