Ntiamoah Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has adopted seven Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compounds in the Birim North District in the Eastern Region as its responsibility.
It has consequently equipped them with refrigerators, television sets, lap top computers, delivery beds, medical equipment and consumables.
The Programmes Manager of Ntiamoah Foundation, Williams Sarpong, disclosed this at the NGO’s annual stakeholders meeting at New Abirem.
The event was part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of the humanitarian NGO.
For instance, eight nurses drawn from the Birim North District sponsored by Ntiamoah Foundation to pursue degree courses at various universities have completed and have been posted to health facilities in the district.
The forum was attended by traditional rulers, teachers, the NGO’s coordinators, health personnel, staff of the Birim North District Asembly and staff of Zi Jin Gold Mining Company.
Philanthropic gestures
Mr Sarpong said the organisation had established a mobile library and set up reading clubs in a number of basic schools in the district.
He said the foundation had provided well furnished information communication technology (ICT) centres at Akyem Nkwateng Presbyterian, Old Abirem Anglican and Akwadum District Assembly basic schools, while a modern kindergarten block had been provided for Akyem Ntronang Presbyterian Basic School.
He said since the establishment of the NGO, it had distributed essential food items, including rice, vegetable oil, mackerel and sardines to 2,767 persons with disability, the aged and vulnerable people in the district.
He added that the foundation had organised free health screening for five communities.
Mr Sarpong revealed that the NGO, in conjunction with Ghana Hope Foundation, had organised free surgical operations.
The Executive Director of Ntiamoah Foundation, Mercy Quansah Ansah, said many communities in the district had benefited from the NGO in the past 20 years.
She, therefore, urged the people to take ownership of the NGO’s interventions, and to work hard to sustain the facilities.
Justice Abrokwah of the Birim North District Health Directorate, responsible for non-communicable diseases, commended Ntiamoah Foundation for its commitment to health care delivery, but advised the management to actively involve the health directorate in all its programmes.
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