Standard Chartered Bank has presented eye care equipment to the Apam Catholic Hospital, Twifo Praso and Saltpond Hospitals respectively under the “Removing Barriers to Quality Eye Care in Ghana Project” (RB2QE).
The project falls under phase IV of the Bank’s Seeing is Believing Initiative which seeks to restore sight to the curable blind and to prevent blindness.
“Seeing is Believing” is a Standard Chartered global community initiative established in 2003 to celebrate the Bank’s 150th anniversary. It is driven by staff that fundraise, volunteer and raise awareness of avoidable blindness issues across the globe. As replicated in Ghana, the Initiative partners leading eye care agencies to support projects that have an immediate impact on people’s lives and establish sustainable health care for the future.
Under the “RB2QE” project which will ran over a four year period at a cost of US$1,416,772 million, Standard Chartered in partnership with Operation Eyesight Universal and through the support of the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Service seeks to improve the overall eye health of women, men, girls and boys in Ghana through the development of primary and secondary eye care services in the Ashanti, Central, Volta, Greater Accra, Northern and Upper East Regions.
Twenty one eye care centres in existing hospitals will become models of functioning, integrated, replicable and sustainable eye care services in each identified region. Program components will include: equipment and infrastructure, human resource development, awareness creation, and service delivery (including primary eye care) and these three hospitals in the Central Region have benefitted from the RB2QE project.
Last month, the Achimota Hospital which is also a beneficiary under the RB2QE project received their eye care equipment. This brings to four the number of clinics that have been presented with eye care equipment so far.
Presenting the equipment to the three hospitals, Kweku Bedu Addo, Chief Executive Officer for Standard Chartered Bank said “Consequently, we want to step up service delivery in eye care and awareness creation in preventing curable blindness, which is an integral part of our ‘Seeing is Believing’ initiative. Our commitment as an international Bank extends beyond merely providing financial solutions”.
The equipment presented includes Trial Lens Set, Cheatle’s Forceps and containers, assorted gallipots and kidney dishes, Minor surgery sets and instrument sterilizing boxes, portable surgical light, Direct Ophthalmoscopes and Applanation Tonometers.
Receiving the equipment on behalf of the three hospitals, the Central Regional Minister Madam Ama Benyiwaa Doe said “Standard Chartered has continuously displayed great commitment in supporting eye care across the country and its rewarding that the Central Region is benefitting today. I can assure the Bank that the equipment provided will be put to good use for the long term benefit of the people. I also would like to take this opportunity to entreat the hospital staff to adopt a strict maintenance culture for the equipment, as it is one sure way of getting the best out of them.
Standard Chartered Bank has over the years won praise and acclaim for its Sustainability agenda. Within the past 3 years, the Bank has won the “Most Socially Responsible Bank” award (2008, 2009) at the Ghana Banking Awards and also the “Best Company in CSR” title at the Ghana Club 100 Awards (2008).
The project falls under phase IV of the Bank’s Seeing is Believing Initiative which seeks to restore sight to the curable blind and to prevent blindness.
“Seeing is Believing” is a Standard Chartered global community initiative established in 2003 to celebrate the Bank’s 150th anniversary. It is driven by staff that fundraise, volunteer and raise awareness of avoidable blindness issues across the globe. As replicated in Ghana, the Initiative partners leading eye care agencies to support projects that have an immediate impact on people’s lives and establish sustainable health care for the future.
Under the “RB2QE” project which will ran over a four year period at a cost of US$1,416,772 million, Standard Chartered in partnership with Operation Eyesight Universal and through the support of the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Service seeks to improve the overall eye health of women, men, girls and boys in Ghana through the development of primary and secondary eye care services in the Ashanti, Central, Volta, Greater Accra, Northern and Upper East Regions.
Twenty one eye care centres in existing hospitals will become models of functioning, integrated, replicable and sustainable eye care services in each identified region. Program components will include: equipment and infrastructure, human resource development, awareness creation, and service delivery (including primary eye care) and these three hospitals in the Central Region have benefitted from the RB2QE project.
Last month, the Achimota Hospital which is also a beneficiary under the RB2QE project received their eye care equipment. This brings to four the number of clinics that have been presented with eye care equipment so far.
Presenting the equipment to the three hospitals, Kweku Bedu Addo, Chief Executive Officer for Standard Chartered Bank said “Consequently, we want to step up service delivery in eye care and awareness creation in preventing curable blindness, which is an integral part of our ‘Seeing is Believing’ initiative. Our commitment as an international Bank extends beyond merely providing financial solutions”.
The equipment presented includes Trial Lens Set, Cheatle’s Forceps and containers, assorted gallipots and kidney dishes, Minor surgery sets and instrument sterilizing boxes, portable surgical light, Direct Ophthalmoscopes and Applanation Tonometers.
Receiving the equipment on behalf of the three hospitals, the Central Regional Minister Madam Ama Benyiwaa Doe said “Standard Chartered has continuously displayed great commitment in supporting eye care across the country and its rewarding that the Central Region is benefitting today. I can assure the Bank that the equipment provided will be put to good use for the long term benefit of the people. I also would like to take this opportunity to entreat the hospital staff to adopt a strict maintenance culture for the equipment, as it is one sure way of getting the best out of them.
Standard Chartered Bank has over the years won praise and acclaim for its Sustainability agenda. Within the past 3 years, the Bank has won the “Most Socially Responsible Bank” award (2008, 2009) at the Ghana Banking Awards and also the “Best Company in CSR” title at the Ghana Club 100 Awards (2008).
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