The Keeper’s House Chapel International has organized a blood donation exercise to augment the supplies for the Greater Accra Regional blood bank.
The exercise, which formed part of the church’s eighth-anniversary celebration, was held at its premises at Madina in Accra.
Sixty-four members voluntarily donated 64 units of blood to the blood bank.
In his remarks, Reverend Ebenezer Hamilton, Chairman of the anniversary committee said the blood donation was part of the church’s social responsibility to save lives.
He said news abound that there was a shortage of blood at the blood bank while a lot of people needed blood to aid their recovery.
Reverend Hamilton, therefore, urged members of the church to come out in their numbers to donate blood to save lives.
Reverend Hamilton noted that this was not the first time that the Keeper’s House Chapel International was donating blood to the Blood Bank.
He urged the public to also follow suit by taking the initiative to donate blood to the Bank to save lives.
Reverend Hamilton asked the people not to be scared about donating blood, and stressed that it was rather good for their health.
“Blood donation is not harmful. The more you donate, the better for you”, he stressed.
Briefing the media on the exercise, a medical officer with the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Dr. Emmanuel Addipa-Adapoe, noted that blood is an important drug that could not be manufactured but could only be donated.
He said although voluntary donation was the purest and best form of donation compared to replacement and commercial donations, it constituted less than 30 percent of the collection pool in the country.
Dr. Addipa-Adapoe, who is a member of the Covid-19 Management and Rapid Response Team, said every unit of blood could save four lives.
He mentioned people who are bleeding, such as women during delivery, accident victims, and also people with anaemia as some of the patients whose lives could be saved with blood.
Dr Addipa-Adapoe, therefore, lauded members of the Keeper’s House Chapel International for the show of enthusiasm by defying the heavy downpour to voluntarily donate blood to save lives.
He urged the public to follow suit by taking the initiative to donate blood to the Bank to save lives.
In a related development, the Takoradi branch of the Keeper’s House Chapel International has marked its third anniversary with a donation of assorted items and cash to the Egyam Children’s Home in Takoradi.
The items included bags of rice, gallons of oil, drinks, detergents, and clothes.
Held on August 16, 2023, the anniversary was on the theme: “Celebrating God’s Goodness and Faithfulness in Ministry”.
The Resident Pastor, Patrick Danso-Fynn, and other members of the church danced with the children and held a ministry with them.
In his remarks, Pastor Danso-Fynn noted that it was the third consecutive year that the church had made similar donations to the Egyam Children’s Home.
He said the Takoradi branch of Keeper’s House Chapel International had donated the items on behalf of the Founder and General Overseer, Reverend Francis Aubyn.
Pastor Danso-Fynn urged the children to be serious with their studies to excel in their exams and move on to higher institutions to attain professional qualifications.
He charged them to take inspiration from some of the inmates of the home who had moved on to secondary and tertiary institutions.
In her remarks, the matron of the Egyam Children’s Home, Ms. Mary Gladys Boakye, expressed gratitude to the church for the gesture. She said the items would be very beneficial to the children in terms of feeding and other needs.
