MTN Ghana Foundation donates to Tema General Hospital

By Samuel Osei-Frempong, GNA
Tema, May 2, GNA - The MTN Ghana Foundation, the corporate social responsibility wing of MTN, has donated Insecticide Treated Nets (ITN) to pregnant and nursing mothers at the Tema General Hospital.

According to Mr Samuel Koranteng,the Acting Corporate Executive, the donation was made to commemorate this year's World Malaria Day under the foundation's "Save a Life" initiative.

"To mark the day, MTN staff volunteers are distributing more than 300 ITNs to pregnant and nursing mothers in selected hospitals in Accra, Bolgatanga,Takoradi, and Cape Coast.

He said the objective to suppport the nationwide campaign for children and mothers sleeping under treated nets is because they are at a higher risk of being infected by malaria.

"Once we reduce malaria infections, we would have reduced the pressure on our health facilities. We will also spend less resources to drive malaria elimination campaigns and the importation of malaria drugs."

Dr Kwabena Opoku-Adusei,Medical Director of the Hospital, thanked the Foundation for the gesture and appealed to government to provide the Tema Metropolis with a well-resourced Regional Hospital to meet the needs of residents.

GNA