Use LED lighting systems - Ghanaians urged
The General Manager of Philips Lighting in West Africa, Mr Felix Darko, has encouraged Ghanaians to adopt the use of light-emitting diode (LED) lighting systems instead of compact fluorescent lighting systems.
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The move, he said, would bring efficiency in the use of energy in the country, while helping individuals and organisations to save cost.
Speaking at the sixth Philips’s Pan-African Cairo to Cape Town road show in Accra last Tuesday, Mr Darko observed that at the peak of Ghana’s energy crisis in 2007, the government switched from incandescent lighting to compact fluorescent lighting which helped save the country a lot of megawatts of power.
“Moving from the current light source to LED will save 80 per cent of your light bills,” he added.
Mr Darko stated that the LED lighting systems had a longer life span and added that this would lead to low replacement cost,as well as the reduction in energy usage which ultimately meant the limited electricity being generated would reach a lot more people
Cape Town to Cairo roadshow
The Philips’s annual pan-African Cape Town to Cairo roadshow, which commenced on May 11, 2015, in Cape Town, allows the company to address key issues facing Africa, including mother and child, the rise in non-communicable diseases, as well as energy-efficient LED and solar lighting solutions.
As part of the roadshow, the General Manager of Philips Healthcare West Africa, Mr Robin Armstrong, said the company would seek to address issues pertaining to improving health care in the country.
He added that Philips had partnered the Pentecost Hospital in Accra to organise intensive training workshops for midwives at the hospital.
“Training and education has always been at the centre of everything we do at Philips, and we realise that we have a responsibility to ensure our innovations are used so that they can provide meaningful change in people’s lives,” he added.
Explaining why the Pentecost Hospital was picked, he said the hospital ranked number four in terms of maternal deliveries in the Greater Accra Region with an average of more than 2,800 deliveries annually.
“We want to collaborate with the Pentecost Hospital for the continuum of care in pregnancy, from prenatal to antenatal and postnatal,” he added.
Mr Armstrong said the company would present the hospital with its mobile ultrasound system named VISIQ, the size of a tablet, which would allow midwives to perform ultrasounds in the homes of pregnant women.
Ghana is the sixth stop on the journey covering 12,000km across 11 cities and eight countries over a period of four-and-a-half months.