Komfo Anokye, Korle Bu hospitals receive chemotherapy drugs

Breast Care International (BCI) and Janssen Pharmaceuticals have presented assorted chemotherapy drugs to the Paediatric Units of the Komfo Anokye and Korle Bu teaching hospitals.

The presentation formed part of a support by the two organisations to assist patients with cancer in need of medical care. 

The Country Manager of Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Priscilla Owusu Sekyere, said the organisation was passionate about making available and accessible highly efficient products in the treatment of cancers.

“Our credo-based example of making solutions available to the waiting patient compels us to make these donations to help these vulnerable children, especially in remote areas, to be cancer free. With Breast Care International as a very strong partner we are most certain we would make an unforgettable difference in the lives of these patients,” she continued.

Presenting the two hundred, out of a total of three hundred vials, to the two teaching hospitals, Dr Beatrice Wiafe Addai, President of BCI and CEO of Peace and Love Hospitals, commended the donor community for reaching out to the needy in society. 

Receiving the drugs, the Principal Pharmacist at the Paediatric Oncology Unit of the Child Health Department of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Mr Paul Obeng, expressed his appreciation to Breast Care International and its partner institutions, Johnson and Johnson and Direct Relief, for the kind gesture.

The Head of the Child Health Department of the hospital, Professor Daniel Ansong, also expressed his profound appreciation and requested for more of such donations to help needy patients in the department.