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18.04.2015 Social News

Centre for Legacy Promotion Awards 84-year-old Midwife

By GNA
Centre for Legacy Promotion Awards 84-year-old Midwife
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Mr Justice Samuel Adjei, Deputy Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister

Chiraa, April 18, GNA - Mr. Justice Samuel Adjei, Deputy Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister, has commended the management of the Centre for Legacy Promotion (CelP), a Sunyani-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) for honouring a 84-year-old retired midwife, Madam Rosebud Gaissie, for her long humanitarian services to the region in particular, and Ghana in general.

Mr. Adjei said he was personally happy and thought other discerning citizens would share the same view, that it was always far better to honour the living than the dead.

The Deputy Regional Minister was speaking at a special programme organised by CelP to give recognition to Madam Gaissie who, after retiring as a midwife over 20 years ago, had still decided to give services to pregnant women at Chiraa, where she had sited her private Midwifery Centre, after her active service with the Ghana Health Service.

Mr. Adjei continued to praise CelP, a newly-formed NGO in Sunyani, and expressed the hope that the Management would continue to nose around in the region to look for similar individual dedicated, committed, and selfless people of the region and bestow deserving honour to him or her as done to Madam Gaissie.

In his view the expected impact of any award or honour bestowed on the dead would not serve for the needed purpose than when the same action was done for the beneficiary at the time when he or she was alive, expressing the hope that the honour done to Madam Gaissie would serve as an encouragement to not only workers at the GHS, but those at the entire Civil and Public Services, to continue to work harder.

Nana Bofotia Boaamponsem, Krontihene of the Sunyani Traditional Area and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CelP said his organisation came into being only two years ago, adding its core mandate was to list such awardees in the Organisation's 'Legacy Book Of Records' just on the same line as the Guinness Book Of Records already existing in the country.

Nana Bofotia said: 'It is better to honour a human being while alive and not after his or her death', he stressed.

As part of the programme, Mr. Ignatious Baffour-Awuah, Member of Parliament (MP) for Sunyani West on behalf of CelP launched a Rosebud Gaisie Foundation, and said the money to be accrued from it would be used to support Girls' Science education in the area.

Barima Afari Minta the Second, Chief of Chiraa, said the emergence of Legacy Book Of Records in Brong-Ahafo should spur people of the region on, to do their best to promote the region and themselves in all spheres of life.

Madam Gaisie did active 55 years service for the nation, first as a classroom teacher and later attended nursing training college to be trained as a midwife.

GNA

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