The Obuasi Municipal Health Director, Madam Yaa Manu has commended the Fifty 50 Club for their continuous support towards quality healthcare delivery in Obuasi and neighbouring districts.
Interacting with the media at the sidelines following another donation event by the NGO, Yaa Manu said in an era where some health facilities especially within the rural communities have reported of lack of beds and other medical equipment, the Fifty 50 club has consistently come to the aid of health facilities with medical equipment and supplies.
Founded in July 2020, the Fifty 50 Club has made several donations over the past 2 years including contributing to the cost of heart surgeries for eight individuals (6 kids and two adults) with various heart/medical conditions, supporting community clinics with medical equipment and supplies, providing scholarships to brilliant but needy students, and setting up twenty-three people with trading businesses.
The Club on Saturday, 17th December 2022 donated medical equipment and supplies totalling about GHS 34,500 to the Ntonsua CHPS Compound in the Obuasi Municipality and the Nsokote-Anomabo CHPS Compound in the Adansi Asokwa district.
The items included 4 Crank Beds with Drip Stands, 2 Nebulizing Machines, 2 Oxygen Cylinders with Trolleys and Flowmeters, 4 BP Apparatus, 2 Fetal Dopplers, 2 Medication Trolleys, among others. This came on the heels of a similar donation by the Club in August.
Two individuals (a stroke patient and another with intestinal disorder), were provided various financial support totaling GHS 8,500 to undergo medical treatment at the same event.
The Health Director said the donations will go a long way to ease the stress and struggles of health workers in the beneficiary facilities and also promote the health of indigenes of the communities.
The Club also donated assorted food items worth about GHS 7,000 to Patmos Children’s Home in the Adansi Asokwa district.
Receiving the items on behalf of the Orphanage home, Cecilia Osei Wusu, a Caregiver lauded the Club for what she described as a timely intervention insisting that it will enable the children make merry during the Christmas season.
The total cost of the donations on the day amounted to GHS 50,000.
The President and Founder of the Club, Jacob Edmund-Acquah said the Club since its establishment has contributed in changing the lives of individuals and institutions with targeted donations.
He said feedback from the beneficiaries over the years, lends credence to the impact the Club has made since it was formed in July 2020.
Whiles praising MTN Foundation for supporting the Club with GHS 20,000, he also appealed to other corporate bodies to consider making similar donations to support and promote the Club’s activities.
The Obuasi Municipal Health Directorate however, presented a citation to the Fifty Club in recognition of their support to healthcare delivery in Obuasi and its surrounding communities within the Ashanti Region.
