COVID-19: Beko Electronics supports Adentan Health Directorate
Electronics giant, Beko has donated ice chest freezers and gallons of alcohol-based hand sanitizers to the Adenta Health Directorate.
The items worth thousands of cedis was to support the Directorate's effort to curb the spread of the Coronavirus.
The Head of Beko Electronics and Business Development of Forewin Ghana Limited, Mr Anthony Yared during the presentation ceremony today (July 8, 2020) said: "The idea came from Beko headquarters in Turkey, in collaboration with our local entity Forewin Ghana to help fight the coronavirus pandemic.
"Turkey took the initiative from the beginning of the pandemic to innovate solutions through research and development in their high-technology facility and tasked us to support nursing homes and government entities.
"We thought it prudent to support with chest freezers because it is the best option since it will help in the refrigeration of children's medication under hygienic conditions. We will be supporting nine other families under the Adentan Health Directorate."
The Deputy Director of Nursing Services in the Adentan Municipality, Madam Naomi Blankson expressed gross gratitude to Beko for the gesture.
"The Chest Freezers will indeed help us a great deal. It will save mothers from coming all the way from their various places to gather here. We can now freeze our ice packs in our freezers, meaning we don't have to pay to freeze vaccines for the kids. We can now take it to the fields for our community nurses to provide health services for our kids. We are grateful for this wonderful gesture," she said.
A public health service nurse, Cyndi Ofori Appiah, who played a key role in contacting the donors for the gesture was hopeful that the donation would prevent overcrowding at the facility.
"No doubt this gesture will help our community nurses stay longer on the fields, and that will prevent mothers from coming to gather at the facility. WHO and UNICEF have stated that children are vulnerable due to the fact that they may miss immunization during this COVID-19 period because mothers are scared to visit health centres, so this support will help a lot. We are most grateful to Beko," she stated.