50 Club, an Obuasi-base Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), which includes employees of AngloGold Ashanti and its subsidiaries, and employees of other corporate organisations across the length and breadth of the country and abroad, has donated health equipment and suppliers worth GH¢36,000.00 to three District Health Directorates.
The beneficiary facilities are the Adumanu, Kunka and Tweapease health centers in the Adansi North, Obuasi Municipality, and Amansie Central directorates in the Ashanti Region.
The Club collaborated with the Obuasi Municipal Health Directorate, with support from the Adansi North and Amansie Health Directorates, to undertake a needs assessment exercise from which the three beneficiaries were selected.
The report from the assessment showed that most health facilities needed basic equipment to enable them function optimally, and indicated that they decided on those items based on the needs assessment carried out by the Club and the Health Directorates.
The medical items donated included six Crank beds with drip stands, two Nebulizing machines, two oxygen cylinders with Flowmeters, six BP apparatus, two Fetal Dopplers, one Autoclave/Steriliser, and one delivery bed among others.
Mr. Jacob Edmund-Acquah, President and Founder of the Club, explained that, the donation formed part of activities to mark the Club’s second anniversary.
According him, since July 2020 when the club was formed, they had made a number of donations, including contributing to the cost of heart surgeries for six kids with various heart/medical conditions, supported community clinics with medical equipment and supplies, provided scholarships to brilliant but needy students, and set up 23 people in trading businesses.
These donations, he said, were made possible through the voluntary monthly contributions of its membership, which now stood at 215.
Mr. Edmund-Acquah expressed the view that for the club to have the reach an impact it craves for, it was imperative for it to also concentrate on assisting health facilities in the remote areas.
He appealed to corporate entities to consider making donations to the Club to enable it hold regular donation events to meet its health objectives.
Madam Margaret Yaa Manu, Obuasi Municipal Health Director, lauded the 50 Club for coming to the aid of the health centers, describing the gesture as timely and appropriate.
She reiterated that the items were very important to the work and schedule of the health centers, and that they would help put a stop to the situation where the centers referred minor cases to bigger facilities because of the absence of basic equipment.
