Alhaji Seidu Agongo, Businessman and philanthropist has paid the medical bills of 25 patients in the Out-Patient Department (OPD) of the Child Emergency Unit of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Zeera Group also made a cash donation of GHS20,000 to the unit to be used to purchase consumables, including gloves and syringes.
He also offered to repaint the place and repair all air conditioning units in the facility to help make life more bearable for both patients and staff.
Alhaji Agongo said the donation marked the beginning of a month-long support to delivery women in four hospitals across the Greater Accra Region and another in the Volta Region.
The initiative dubbed ‘Ramadan Donation,’ will enable him to pay the medical bills of all delivery women in the Korle-Bu Hospital, the 37 Military Hospital, the Mammobi Polyclinic and the Adabraka Polyclinic, all in Accra and the St Anthony Hospital at Dzodze.
The donations started on March 3 and will run until March 31, when the Ramadan fasting ends.
The month of Ramadan is observed globally by Muslims as a period of fasting, prayer, reflection and support to community. “This is a special month, a period Allah wants us to get closer to him, reflect on our lives and share the little we have with our neighbours” he said.
“I have chosen to share that little with women who deliver within this period,” he said.
About 45 women have so far benefitted from the Ramadan donations.
The hospital bills will be paid three times every week in the four selected hospital.
Alhaji said he started the donation in the Child Emergency Unit of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital because of the attachment he had to the block.
He said he was moved to construct a new block for the unit in 2018 when he realised how it was.
“In 100 years, time, we will all be gone from the face of this earth. Nobody will go with a pesewa but the impact we make in the lives of people will remain forever and it will multiply and impact many more,” Alhaji Agongo said.
Madam Mercy Asiedu, the Deputy Chief Nursing Officer at the Child Emergency Unit of the Korle-Bu Hospital who received the donation commended Alhaji Agongo for his kind gesture, noting that it was exemplary.
Madam Asiedu said the unit was overwhelmed with demands for its services, making internal resources inadequate.
she called for additional support from philanthropist and benevolent organisations to help make health delivery more accessible.
She pledged to ensure that the funds were applied to their intended purpose
Source: GNA
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