3 Companies donate to ‘Save a mother, save a child’ project
Three companies have donated equipment to the ‘Save a Mother, Save a Child’ project, an initiative of the Rebecca Foundation.
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They are the Kokrokoo Charity Foundation, Life Care Technology and Mindray Company.
The Kokrokoo Charity, an initiative of radio broadcaster, Kwame Sefa Kayi, presented two incubators valued at $20,000 to the project, while Life Care Technology, led by its General Manager, Mr Bishoy Foaud, donated five patient monitors.
Mindray Company, a medical device company, through its local representative KD Global, also presented two portable ultrasound machines.
Mr Kayi, Founder of the Kokrokoo Charities Foundation and host of Kokrokoo Morning Show on Peace FM, who presented the incubators to the First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, said the incubators were in honour of a pledge made during the launch of the “Save a Mother, Save a Child” project being undertaken by the First Lady in aid of a maternity block for the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi.
Mr Kayi said the two incubators add up to six others that had already been installed by his foundation under its “Project 100 Incubators” initiative at the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) of government facilities in Accra, Prestea, Nsawam and Tamale.
He explained that the incubators being donated fall under the “Giving hope to mothers, Keeping Children Alive” campaign, championed by the foundation and aimed at raising funds to purchase and install 100 incubators in NICUs of health facilities nationwide.
The First Lady thanked the three bodies for their support, saying the equipment would be useful in helping address the situation at KATH.
Fundraising
The First Lady, in May this year, organised two fundraising events in support of a new mother and baby unit at KATH which yielded positive response, with various individuals and institutions donating cash and equipment towards the initiative, while others made pledges.
As of May 31, 2017, an amount of GH¢6,170,686,23 with an outstanding amount of cash pledges of GH¢1,489,500.00 yet to be redeemed had been realised.
Additionally, in-kind pledges and donations, including cement, electrical cables, windows, pipes, baby cots, hospital beds and incubators were made.
The facility, which is being constructed by Africa Building Partners, is expected to be completed in four months.