World Vision promotes health services in three regions
World Vision, a christian humanitarian organisation, has donated 36 medical examination tables worth GH¢108,756 to the Ghana Health Service (GHS).
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The medical equipment is to support the delivery of quality health services in hard-to-reach and deprived communities in the seven beneficiary districts and a municipality in the three northern regions.
Beneficiaries
The beneficiaries are the West Mamprusi and Karaga districts and the Savelugu Municipality in the Northern Region, Guru, Kassena and Bawku-West in the Upper East Region and Jirapa in the Upper West Region.
The donation of the medical equipment to the health sector is the second to be made by World Vision this year.
World Vision, at the ceremony, also handed over 42,728 copies of assorted books and teaching materials worth GH¢ 762,114.55 to the Ghana Education Service (GES) for distribution to schoolchildren in rural communities in the beneficiary districts.
The gesture
Handing over the medical equipment and the educational materials at a brief ceremony at Savelugu, the acting Manager of the Northern Regional branch of World Vision, Mr Timothy Akanpabadai, said the donation was to support health facilities in hard-to-reach and deprived communities in northern Ghana.
He added that the books were also to help schoolchildren in rural communities who were unable to read and write proficiently.
"World Vision's child wellbeing aspirations include ensuring that children enjoy good health and are educated for life in Ghana. Our collaboration with partners aims at transforming lives, especially in the rural areas where most of the country's vulnerable people live and are without very essential social amenities," he said.
Mr Akanpabadai pledged that the World Vision would continue to collaborate with the GHS and the GES to improve the quality of health and education for children living in deprived areas in northern Ghana.
Appreciation
The Karaga District Health Director, Mr Peter Apetorgbor, who received the medical equipment on behalf of the beneficiary districts, thanked World Vision for the support and stated that it would go a long way to enhance the delivery of health care in the districts.
The Upper East Deputy Director of the GES in charge of Planning, Mr Raymond Abatanie, who received the educational materials on behalf of the GES, expressed his gratitude to World Vision for the gesture, saying that they would promote the standard of education in the beneficiary districts.