Tel Energy donates to Accra Psychiatric Hospital
Tel Energy, an oil marketing company, has donated medical supplies and assorted items to the Accra Psychiatric Hospital.
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The donation forms part of the company’s corporate social responsibility.
Items
The items include gloves, syringes, notebooks, A4 sheets, pens, plasters, adult diapers, toilet rolls, powdered soap, liquid soap, Dettol, parazone, staples, stapler pins and bine 20.
Presenting the items, the Business and Finance Manager of Tel Energy, Mr Brentford Nartey, said the donation formed part of the company’s fifth anniversary celebration.
“Tel Energy turned five on November 15, 2016. Though young, it is important to commemorate this milestone as it presents an opportunity to assess how far the company has come and plan towards how to strategically position itself for the next five years,” he said.
Mr Nartey said the decision to support the Accra Psychiatric Hospital was based on earlier reports about the challenges the hospital was facing.
The plight
Receiving the items on behalf of the hospital, the Director of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, Dr Pinaman Appau, expressed her appreciation to Tel Energy for the kind gesture.
She said due to inadequate support for mental health facilities, taking care of of psychiatric patients had become a challenge.
Although mentally ill patients are housed in the few psychiatric hospitals in the country, she said their conditions may not be the best due to inadequate supply of their physical needs.
Recently, she said the workers at the hospital threatened to embark on strike due to inadequate medical supplies to work with and insufficient funds to run the facility.
However, she said the government responded to the plight of the workers and issued a cheque for GH₵300,000 as well as other items to the hospital to support them.
She stated that the hospital had been run on donations although the ministry sometimes came to the hospital’s aid, saying that “these items would go a long way to help us”.