Ghana’s leading indigenous Oil Marketing Company, GOIL Company Limited, has donated fifty hospital beds to the 37 Military Hospital in Accra, the capital of Ghana.
The beds were procured at the cost of Gh¢250,000 by the oil company and presented to the hospital by the Group CEO, Osei Kwame Prempeh, who was accompanied by some of the company’s staff.
The 37 Military Hospital is one of the referral hospitals in West Africa and receives hundreds of patients, thereby, putting pressure on the facility.
Speaking to energynewsafrica.com, Group CEO and Managing Director of GOIL Company Limited, Osei Kwame Prempeh said he visited the hospital some weeks ago and while he was being conducted around the facility by officials, they informed him of the needs of the hospital.
Hearing that, he said he took their needs to the management of GOIL, who decided to use part of their Corporate Social Responsibility funds to procure the beds to equip the hospital to prevent situations where patients have been turned away because of shortages of beds.
Osei Kwame Prempeh said GOIL has been supporting the hospital with donations in different ways, recalling the supply of some Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) to the hospital during the Covid-19 era.
The Group CEO said although GOIL cannot solve all the problems of the hospital, it would continue to support the facility no matter how small it would be.
He used the occasion to call on fuel consumers to keep patronising the services of GOIL, reminding Ghanaians to see the company like theirs and also bearing in mind that any profit the company makes is invested in the country to address the social and economic issues.
Commenting on the gesture, the Commanding Officer of 37 Military Hospital, Brig Gen Azumah Bugri, who received the beds on behalf of the hospital and other officers, commended the Management of GOIL for the donation and noted that beds are critical in health care delivery.
He said some patients go to the hospital for a day’s visit for observation while others go and are admitted.
He said in all scenarios, beds are needed for proper examination to be done on the patients and treatment.
He said the beds would go a long way to help the hospital.
Samples of the bed
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