ER Hospital: Black Stars forward Emmanuel Boateng pays bills of detained patients
Ghana international footballer Emmanuel Boateng, through his Emmanuel Boateng Foundation, has paid the hospital bills of 25 needy patients who were on admission at the Eastern Regional Hospital, Koforidua.
The beneficiaries comprised patients who were detained as a result of not being able to pay for their consumables and medicines administered to them and others who were on admission but could not afford medication.
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Boateng who plies his trade with Dalian Professional in the Chinese Super League was accompanied by his father Augustine Ofori Boateng, a former player of Akotex FC and manager Bright Sterling Boateng as well as other members of the Foundation on Wednesday, January 26, to make the charitable gesture.
The move according to him was his way of giving back to society after being blessed abundantly by God.
He used the opportunity to interact with the patients and personally handed over the amount they required to pay their medical bills.
"Doing charity work has been a part of my life since childhood, and it is one secret that has kept me going till date, and it is for this reason that I came together with my team to set up the Emmanuel Boateng Foundation to support the less privilege in society," Boateng said.
The Medical Director of the Eastern Regional Hospital Dr. Arko Akoto-Ampaw, on behalf of the patients on admission at the facility and management, expressed profound gratitude to Mr Boateng and the Foundation for their thoughtfulness.
Dr. Akoto-Ampaw revealed that the facility runs an "every life matter policy" whereby they attend to patients first before thinking of payment, hence the high in-patients numbers and patients who did not have money to pay for treatment.
"Your visit here today is timely as it has come to save a lot, especially patients discharged but cannot go home because they cannot pay their bills, some of these patients end up picking other infections which they did not come with," Dr Akoto-Ampaw said.
"Also your visit has really taken off the stress from looking after patients and having to dip our hands into our pockets for their continuous sustenance because they cannot pay what it is that they can afford."