GCGL, Ga West Presbytery to organise blood donation exercise
The Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) and the Ga West Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana will organise a blood donation exercise on Sunday, May 30, this year to feed the Greater Accra Regional Hospital’s (Ridge Hospital) blood bank.
At least 400 congregants from the Adabraka Official Town, Kwashieman, and Gbawe districts of the church are expected to participate in the exercise.
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The blood donation is part of activities to mark the fifth anniversary of the Ga West Presbytery and the support is in line with GCGL’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in health.
The Corporate Communications Manager of GCGL, Mr Emmanuel Agyei Arthur, said the exercise was in response to the continuous appeal by the Ridge Hospital for blood.
“This will be the fifth time that we are engaging in this exercise to help organise blood for a health facility. We all know the importance of blood for treatment especially with emergency situations and you have heard a good number of times even the officials of the national blood bank appealing that everyone should be on board to help raise enough blood so that we can save lives,” he said.
Health project
Mr Arthur said the exercise dovetailed into GCGL’s larger health project which catered for the sick and needy.
He said the project included the Graphic Needy Trust Fund which helped needy people who required medical treatment that was beyond their reach financially.
“We are a business and if people don’t survive, our business will not survive. The company has in most cases dealt with cancer and tumour situations, especially for children from needy homes,” he added.
“We also try to give people access to health all year round and we do that through the registration of some of the communities, especially Adabraka, onto the National Health Insurance Scheme, particularly children so that even while they fall sick, they themselves can go to the hospital with the card that we have given them, fully paid for,” he said.
He also indicated that “the other aspect that we added regarding the preventive is also to ensure that there is cleanliness around us and that is the bit we are doing with the sanitation campaign.”
Social service
The District Minister of the Presbyterian Church, Adabraka Official Town, Rev. Kwadwo Owusu Sarpong, explained that 50 congregations would participate in the exercising and added that it was a way of offering social services.
“Recently, you will hear the Ridge Hospital announcing on air and inviting people to come and donate blood. And so, we thought we would support Ridge Hospital to come out of their precarious situation,” he said.
“We are partnering Graphic in this exercise because it is an old media house with a wider readership, so that they will announce our good intentions not only in Accra, but also to the Ghanaian populace,” he stated.
Rev. Sarpong further urged all institutions to be proactive in responding to such desperate calls when it was necessary.
“I want to appeal to other religious societies to embark on this type of exercise so that our hospitals will also have enough blood to do their work,” he said.
Other activities
Other activities lined up to mark the Ga West Presbytery’s fifth anniversary include donation of items to the Weija Leprosarium, a Bible quiz and a music festival.
The anniversary will be climaxed with a thanksgiving service in July.,
