GCB, Everpure support flood victims
The GCB Bank Limited has presented medical supplies worth GH¢50,000 to the 37 Military Hospital to support the flood and fire victims.
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The items included 750 pieces of metro injection,300 bottles of Ayrton Floxa suspension,150 bottles of Dettol, 1,440 hydrogen peroxide,155 packets of Amoxiklav tablets and injections and 1,200 pieces of high elastic bandage.
The Managing Director of the bank, Mr Simon Dornoo, who presented the items, said as a direct response to the numerous appeals, his outfit had earmarked GH¢300,000 to assist the disaster victims.
He said to enhance the effectiveness of their donation and to ensure that victims of the disaster benefited directly from their gesture, the bank was purchasing medical items and drugs for the three other main hospitals in Accra to cater for the needs of the victims.
These hospitals, he said, were the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, the Ridge Hospital and the Police Hospital where the surviving victims had been admitted.
Mr Dornoo said each of these hospitals would receive medical supplies and drugs worth GH¢50,000. This would amount to GH¢200,000.
Additionally, he said the bank, touched by the sordid, chilling and painful experiences of their compatriots since the disaster, would be spending one hundred thousand Ghana cedis to purchase bags of rice, water, solar lamps, mattresses, buckets, bowls and toiletries for the victims.
He further stated that volunteers from the bank would co-ordinate with the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) and representatives of the victims in the locality to ensure that the victims benefited directly from their magnanimity.
"All these are being done under GCB’s corporate social responsibility towards Ghanaians. It is our hope that the gesture will in no small way help to restore the hopes of individuals and communities hard hit by the disaster," he said.
The managing director said as Ghana's largest indigenous bank with one of its imposing structures, 'GCB Tower, located just a distance from the Kwame Nkrumah Circle Goil Filling station where most lives were lost in the disaster, the bank could have been a victim.
Receiving the items, the acting Commanding Officer of the 37 Military Hospital, Col Yeboah Agyapong, thanked the management and staff members for the gesture.
In another development, Everpure Ghana Limited, producers of purified water and ice cubes, has presented 1000 pieces of sachet water and 20 boxes of purified water worth GH¢5000 to the Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) to be distributed to the flood victims.
The General Manager of the company, Mr Martin Asamoah Asare, who presented the water, said the donation formed part of his outfit’s corporate social responsibility to help the afflicted in society.
The Chief Director of the RCC, Mr Ernest Nyagbe, who received the items, thanked the company for the gesture and expressed the hope that other benevolent organisations would donate generously to assist the victims.