By Kofi AHOVI
The Mandated Lead Arrangers (MLAs) of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has presented a cheque for GHc25, 000 to the Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital at Mampong in the Eastern Region.
Standard Bank, International Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), Credit Agricole CIB, Ghana International Bank and Denton Wilde Sapte contributed
GHc 5,000 each. In addition to the cheque, the banks also provided two mechanized boreholes at the cost of GHc21,000 for the hospital.
The five lead financiers were also expected to present anaesthetic machines and patient monitors to the hospital but the machines, valued at 35, 000 Euros, arrived behind schedule at the sea port and were yet to be cleared.
Explaining the objective behind the gesture, the Managing Director of Stanbic Bank, Alhassan Andani, said. “ Every year after signing these loan syndications, we receive a plaque from COCOBOD, we decided to be at the giving end this time around, by giving out these monies as a form of our social responsibility.”
Receiving the cheque, the District Director of Health at Mampong, Dr. Joseph Opare, who expressed appreciation to the bankers and COCOBOD, promised that the machines and the money would be put to good use.
He informed the bankers of other needs of the hospital which include a fridge for its morgue, construction of speed ramps in front of the hospital to prevent recurrent accidents and a laundry machine among others.
He explained that since the hospital’s laundry machine broke down about three years ago, it has had to fall on the services of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital and Ridge Hospital in Accra for assistance which have had a negative impact on the activities of the hospital.
The bankers and the staff of COCOBOD later visited the Tetteh Quarshie Cocoa Farm and the Jubilee Farm located in the same community, where some senior staff of the banks planted cocoa plants.
The Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hpspital was built by COCOBOD in 1961and it serves about 120,000 people in the district. Out of four surgical theatres, only one is functional since 2006. The hospital has since the beginning of the year seen a total of 4,000 patients and recorded 200 deaths.
The Mandated Lead Arrangers (MLAs) of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has presented a cheque for GHc25, 000 to the Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital at Mampong in the Eastern Region.
Standard Bank, International Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), Credit Agricole CIB, Ghana International Bank and Denton Wilde Sapte contributed
GHc 5,000 each. In addition to the cheque, the banks also provided two mechanized boreholes at the cost of GHc21,000 for the hospital.
The five lead financiers were also expected to present anaesthetic machines and patient monitors to the hospital but the machines, valued at 35, 000 Euros, arrived behind schedule at the sea port and were yet to be cleared.
Explaining the objective behind the gesture, the Managing Director of Stanbic Bank, Alhassan Andani, said. “ Every year after signing these loan syndications, we receive a plaque from COCOBOD, we decided to be at the giving end this time around, by giving out these monies as a form of our social responsibility.”
Receiving the cheque, the District Director of Health at Mampong, Dr. Joseph Opare, who expressed appreciation to the bankers and COCOBOD, promised that the machines and the money would be put to good use.
He informed the bankers of other needs of the hospital which include a fridge for its morgue, construction of speed ramps in front of the hospital to prevent recurrent accidents and a laundry machine among others.
He explained that since the hospital’s laundry machine broke down about three years ago, it has had to fall on the services of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital and Ridge Hospital in Accra for assistance which have had a negative impact on the activities of the hospital.
The bankers and the staff of COCOBOD later visited the Tetteh Quarshie Cocoa Farm and the Jubilee Farm located in the same community, where some senior staff of the banks planted cocoa plants.
The Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hpspital was built by COCOBOD in 1961and it serves about 120,000 people in the district. Out of four surgical theatres, only one is functional since 2006. The hospital has since the beginning of the year seen a total of 4,000 patients and recorded 200 deaths.
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