WESTERN Union, a leader in the money transfer segment of global payments, and its local agents have presented 3,000 pieces of mosquito nets to the Tema General and the Pantang hospitals at a ceremony in Tema.
Other beneficiary hospitals include, Effia Nkwanta Hospital, Ewim Urban Hospital, Cape Coast Metro Hospital and Holy Family Hospital at Nkawkaw.
The rest are Bekwai Government Hospital, Volta Regional Hospital, Aflao Hospital, Tamale Central Hospital, Tamale West Hospital and the Holy Family Hospital, Techiman.
The presentation, which forms part of a nation-wide donation of 3000 pieces at the cost of $25,000 to selected hospitals in the 130 districts in the country, was in line with its vision to continue to touch lives through sensitisation programmes.
Speaking at the presentation ceremony, the Head of money transfer and remittance at the Agriculture Development Bank (ADB), Mr Anthony Kemevor, said the daunting statistics of three million cases of clinical malaria reported in public health facilities in the country annually were an issue that ought to be given utmost attention in all spheres of policy formulation and implementation.
“It was for these reasons that the Western Union and its agents have chosen to answer the question ‘Can you protect your family against malaria?’ with the power of Yes,” he stated.
He said the distribution of the long-lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs) was to complement the Ghana Malaria Control Programme’s objective that followed the global principles laid down by the World Health Organisation (WHO) aims at having up to 85 per cent of the most vulnerable groupings, made up of children under the age of five and pregnant women, sleeping under LLINs by 2015.
The Deputy Director of Nursing Services at the Tema General Hospital, Mrs Evelyn Tekyi-Mensah, who received the nets on behalf of the institutions, commended Western Union for the gesture.
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