Shiloh Baptist Church donates to Otuam Health Centre

By Afedzi Abdullah, GNA
Otuam (C/R) Oct. 7, GNA - The Shiloh Baptist Church of Landover, Maryland, US, has presented assorted medical supplies to the Otuam Health Centre in the Ekumfi District of the Central Region, to help improve health care delivery at the facility.

The Health Centre took delivery of the items comprising 28 bedsheets, 300 bed pads, eight blood pressure devices, six stethoscopes, a quantity of plasters and bandages.

Speaking at a ceremony to present the items, the Head Pastor of the Church, Pastor Belouis Colleton said the donation was upon a request made to the mission by the hospital staff.

The relationship between the church and the Otuam community dates back to 2011 and had since been supporting the community in diverse ways including the provision of micro- finance to women to help them grow their businesses.

Pastor Colleton said the church had adopted more than 40 needy children in the community and is sponsoring their education.

The Church, he said had constructed both male and female lavatories in the community as well as seven boreholes and is in the process of converting the facilities into pipes.

It had also provided the Otuam Health Centre with an ambulance and renovated bungalows for nurses and hospital staff last year.

Mrs Doris Diana Dalmeida, Senior Physician Assistant at the Centre described the donation as timely as it would go a long way to ease some of its challenges and facilitate quality healthcare.

She on behalf of the Staff and Management of the Centre thanked the Pastor Collecton and the Church for the kind gesture and promised that the equipment would be put to good use.

She mentioned inadequate water supply, beds, non-drug consumables, as some of the challenges facing the clinic which she noted is affecting the provision of quality health care.

The Centre, which was established in 1960 serves 13 communities in the District with an average of 60 people visiting the facility daily, thus, putting so much pressure on it.

Mrs Dalmeida called on other individuals, organisations and allied agencies, to emulate the gesture by the Church and come to the aid of the Centre to help render its mandate of providing quality health care to the people.

Nana Amuah Afenyi VI, Chief of Ekumfi Otuam expressed appreciation to the Church members for the kind gesture and the support they continue to give to the people in the community.

GNA