The West African Health Organisation (WAHO) has donated 10 fully-insured Suziki TF125 motorbikes and helmets worth GH¢160, 000 to the Ministry of Health (MoH).
The donation is in fulfillment of a pledge made by the Director General of WAHO, Xavier Crespin, during a five-day visit to Ghana to meet President Nana Akufo-Addo and officials of the Ministry of Health (MoH).
The motorbikes were donated to the Mental Health Authority (MHA) and the Traditional Medicine Authority through the MoH.
A Deputy Minister of Health, Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu, received the motorbikes on behalf of Nana Akufo-Addo, Kwaku Agyemang- Manu, Minister of Health and the MoH.
Mr Aboagye expressed a heartfelt gratitude to WAHO and its mother organisation, ECOWAS, for the deed done and expressed hope that the kind gesture continues.
“We hope and pray that this will only be the beginning and not the end and as you know, Oliver asks for more. We are praying that in the next few months or years we will be receiving bigger things from your end,” he stated.
Mr Aboagye commended WAHO for the sectors the donation was being made to, adding that the Mental Health Authority requires the attention of all because of the risks people with mental illness pose to society.
The deputy minister took the opportunity to appeal to civil societies, donors, private sector organisations and individuals to come on board to support the Mental Health Authority.
He urged the Director General of the MHA, Dr Kwasi Osei, to consider setting up a foundation where people who want to support the authority can make their donations.
Dr Osei expressed his appreciation to Xavier Crespin, adding that the donation was a timely deed.
He said that the motorbikes had come at a time where the MHA has started experiencing transportation challenges in their community mental health coordination.
“As part of the new paradigm of the MHA, we are going into communities to help promote people's mental health before mental illness sets in and these motorbikes are going to facilitate this worthy task,” he pointed out.
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