The Founder of Peace and Love Hospitals and President of Breast Care International, Dr Beatrice Wiafe-Addai, has renewed her appeal to the government to waive taxes and duties on donated drugs and medical supplies at the country’s ports to help improve healthcare delivery across Ghana.
According to her, several donor organisations and charitable institutions are willing to support health facilities with essential medicines, medical equipment, and other healthcare-related items.
She explained that many hospitals, particularly those serving vulnerable communities, depend on donations to supplement limited resources and improve patient care.
Speaking during a donation exercise in Kumasi, she stressed that taxes and duties imposed on such donations often discourage potential donors and reduce the level of assistance that reaches healthcare providers.
“We need to be given a waiver at the ports, so that we can ask for more. Because we have to pay the cost at the ports, the duties, taxes and the handling charges. All those things are not good. It can continue like this.
“If we have the waiver, they have a lot of drugs, consumables and equipment that they can give us more. Due to the challenges, we’re not able to ask for more. We should try to make things easy for us so that we can receive more for our people to benefit,” she said.
