1985/87 law class donates to 2 institutions

The 1985/87 Law Class of the Ghana School of Law (GSL) has donated items worth hundreds of cedis to the school and the Accra Psychiatric Hospital.

It presented 13 units of Dell desktop computers and furniture to the school to be used at its reading room.

Items presented to the Psychiatric Hospital comprised two desktop Dell computers with accessories and cleaning detergents, while a refurbished ward was also presented to the hospital.

The year group said the items were donated to the two institutions to commemorate its 25th anniversary of leaving the law school and also as a humanitarian gesture.

Donation to GSL

At the GSL, a Justice of the Court of Appeal, Justice Cecilia Hanzy-Sowah, who received the items last Friday, commended the year group, and said its gesture was an indication of a strong and vibrant class because many law classes had tried forming groups but had not been able to sustain them.

“For every institution, the old students have a lot to contribute for the development of the school,” she said.

She encouraged other year groups to emulate the 1985/87 law class for the growth and development of the school.

The Registrar of GSL, Nana Osei Bonsu, announced that the school would be constructing a $40-million campus on a five-acre land at Legon, beginning January 2014.

He said the three law schools – the Greenhill Campus, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Law School and the GSL – would all relocate to the new campus ultimately.

Accra Psychiatric Hospital

Receiving the items on behalf of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, the Deputy Chief Health Services Administrator, Mr Peter Agyemang-Gyau, said although psychiatric care was supported by the government, the hospital had to rely on benevolent groups to be able to survive due to economic challenges.

“The top priority here is sanitation; it is in a deplorable state,” he said.

Mr Agyemang-Gyau commended the year group, and urged other organisations to take up other areas of need of the hospital.

The Chairman of the group, Mr Richard Akpo Kavie, commended the hospital’s administration for what he said was an obvious improvement in the safety of the patients.

“When measures are constantly put in place to ensure a safe environment, it can even help in the recovery of patients,” he said.

Mr Kavie said the group had taken note of the hospital’s appeal.