Rotary Club donates to Margaret Marquart Eye Clinic

Ho, Feb. 11, GNA - Rotary Club of Ho, working in collaboration with three foreign Rotary affiliates Wednesday presented a Toyota Prado Sport Utility Vehicle, (SUV) to the Margaret Marquart Catholic Hospital Eye Clinic at Kpando in the Volta Region to support its outreaches.

The other collaborators are German Rotary Volunteer Doctors (GRVD) and the Rotary Club of Essen, Germany.

The three provided half of the 28,000 dollar cost of the vehicle, while the other half was got from Rotary Foundation.

The vehicle, along with a mobile-slit-lamp presented to the Marquart Eye Clinic under the package earlier last December, will raise the capacity of the ophthalmological facility, which has an expansive coverage area.

The Mobile-Slit-Lamp detects macular degeneration, detached retina, cataracts, injury to the cornea and blockages of the retinal vessel among others.

Monsignor Cletus Egbi, who represented the Bishop of the Ho Diocese of the Catholic Church, said the Catholic Church founded the Marquart Hospital at Kpando in line with its policy of serving the less privileged people, populating the rural areas especially.

He said the Eye Clinic started in 1997, gave sight to the blind and hope to the hopeless.

Monsignor Egbi said the vehicle with an insignia of the Marquart Hospital, was indeed for the whole region-to reach everywhere possible with help.

He expressed joy that the Hospital had gotten over the hard times and was now able to reach more people.

Dr David Kupitz and his wife Dr Elke Kupitz are the Ophthalmologists in charge of the Clinic.

David Kupitz told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the vehicle would expedite treatment by enabling staff get to clients on time and also facilitate movement of clients to the premises of the Clinic at Kpando.

He said cataract and glaucoma were the most reported cases and that often clients came late, posing huge challenges to medical staff.

Susana Kudjoe, Ho Rotary Club President, who formally gave the vehicle, said an amount of 2,750 Euros, which is the balance of the transaction, would be given to the Margaret Marquart facility to support its outreach programmes.

She said the facility aided the Rotary family offer by facilitating tax waivers, doing the clearing and paying for insurance cover on the vehicle.

GNA