(Ghanaians in 3 American cities donate two hospitals)

The Ghana@50 Thanksgiving Service Committee of the TRI-Residents of Virginia, Columbia and Maryland in the United States of America (USA) has donated 50 mattresses each to the Korle Bu Maternity Ward and the Accra Psychiatric Hospital.
Presenting the items to the two hospitals, the local representative of the committee, Mr de-Best Amenu, said the idea came about when some Ghanaian pastors, based in Virginia, Maryland and Columbia, decided to organise a thanksgiving service to raise funds for the needy in Ghana.
He said fortunately, the committee was able to raise $4892.45, and part of it was used in buying the mattresses for the hospitals.
Mr Amenu said it was rather disheartening to see mothers and their new-born babies sleeping on the bare floor of the maternity ward.
He said the situation was not different at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, where patients were also seen sleeping on the cold floor without any clothes.
He believed that the new mattresses would be of immense benefit to the hospitals.
Receiving the items on behalf of the Korle Bu Maternity Ward, the Deputy Director of Nursing Services, Mrs Dora Batse, expressed her profound gratitude to the donors and hoped for more of those kind gestures.

*THE local representative of the TRI-Residents of Virginia, Columbia and Maryland, Mr de-best Amenu (3rd left) handing over some mattresses to the Deputy Director of Nursing Services of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Madam Dora Batsah (4th right), for the maternity ward of the hospital and the Accra Psychiatric Hospital on behalf of the donors.
With them are the Principal Nursing Officer, Madam Margaret Adjei (2nd left), and the Senior Nursing Officer, Mrs Doris Totime Phillips (2nd right), both of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital.