Rotary Club donates wheelchairs to 3 bodies
The Rotary Club of Accra Labone has donated 50 wheelchairs to three organisations in Accra.
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The beneficiaries are the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), which had 30 chairs, the Korle Bu Polyclinic and the Ghana Society for the Physically Disabled which received 10 chairs each.
The President of the club, Mr Lamtiig Apanga, presented the items and said the donation was part of its "Wheels for Hope" project aimed at donating more than 100 wheelchairs to health facilities in the country before the end of the year.
Wheelchairs
"It is a common sight in our health facilities lately to struggle for a wheelchair to assist in the movement of the sick who are immobile and urgently require the use of a wheelchair to enable them to get to a point of care within the hospital.
He added that “caregivers of such sick people are often frustrated and helpless when they find themselves in these circumstances.”
“It is for this and many other reasons that the Rotary Club of Accra Labone, as part of its projects for the Rotary Year 2016/2017, has decided to embark on the wheelchair project for the year.
"Today marks a huge milestone in our agenda to mobilise a minimum of 100 wheelchairs to support health and allied institutions across the country on the project theme: Wheels for Hope,” Mr Apanga added.
Support
Mr Apanga stated that the Rotary Club Accra, Labone, received corporate support from Cnergy Ghana Limited which funded the cost of 20 of the chairs, Supra Pharma and G2 Medical Laboratory, which funded 10 chairs, respectively, while the club funded the remaining 10.
Representatives of the three organisations: Mr Mustapha Salifu, the Head of Public Relations of the KBTH; Mr Alfred Quarshie, the Greater Accra Regional Secretary of the Ghana Society of the Physically Disabled, and Dr Priscilla Vandyck-Sey of the Korle Bu Polyclinic expressed gratitude to the donors and pledged to put the chairs to good use.