HEALTH FACILITIES IN JOMORO GET ASSISTANCE (PAGE 20)

STORY: Kwame Asiedu Marfo, Half Assini

NZEMA residents in the United States of America have, through the Jomoro District Assembly, donated hospital equipment to
health facilities in the district.
The items included hospital bed mattresses, wheelchairs, crutches and sideboards.
The beneficiary health institutions were the Half Assini Government Hospital, Takinta and Tikobo Number One clinics.
A representative of the Nzemas in the US, Mr Papachie Acquah, handed over the items to the Jomoro District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Martin Yamakeh Ackah, at a short, but impressive ceremony at Half Assini.
Mr Acquah praised the Nzemas in the US for being concerned about the welfare of their fellow citizens at home.
He said about five years ago, they donated furniture worth thousands of Ghana cedis to some schools in Nzemaland.
He mentioned the Half Assini, Nsein, Essiama and Annor Adjaye senior high schools and the Kikam Technical School as some of the institutions that benefited from the package.
Mr Ackah asked the beneficiary health facilities to take good care of the equipment.
He thanked the donors for their gesture and urged other Nzemas in the Diaspora to emulate the example of their counterparts  in the US by coming to the aid of their brothers and sisters at home.
He advised the beneficiaries of the items not only to take good care of them, but must also use them for the intended purpose.
Mr Ackah also expressed his gratitude to the Mediterranean Shipping Company for assisting in clearing the items.
The Matron of the Half Assini Government Hospital, Ms Susana Davies, who received the items on behalf of the hospital, thanked the Nzemas in the US for the donation.
She was grateful to the DCE and his administration through whose efforts the items had been received and distributed to the beneficiaries.
Ms Davies assured the DCE and the donors that they would take proper care of the equipment and make good use of them.