Accra, Feb. 2, GNA- The COVID-19 National Trust Fund has presented some items to five medical facilities providing care to victims and displaced persons in the recent explosion at Appiatse, a mining community near Bogoso in the Western Region.
The medical items and personal protective equipment include 2,000 pieces of KN95 face masks, 2,200 pieces of disposable hand gloves, 2,300 pieces of disposable surgical nose masks,29 pieces of thermometer guns, 2,080 pieces of disposable bedsheets, 2,100 pieces of coveralls, 3,200 pieces of cloth nose masks, 155 gallons of liquid soap, 140 gallons of hand sanitizers and 408 pieces of tissue rolls.
The items were delivered by a three-member team from the COVID-19 National Trust Fund Secretariat at Bogoso, the capital of the Prestea Huni Valley Municipality.
Presenting the items, the Spokesperson for the Trust Fund, Kwame Bempah Osei-Hweree, expressed the sympathy of the Board of Trustees and Staff of the Trust Fund to the bereaved families
and the injured.
He said the items were to protect the victims, the affected and care providers against the pandemic.
The items were received by the Prestea Huni Valley Municipal Director of Health Services, Mr. Joseph Sampson, who expressed appreciation to the COVID-19 National Trust Fund for the timely intervention.
He said the items would help protect the displaced victims and create the awareness that the COVID-19 pandemic was not over.
The beneficiary health facilities are: the Tarkwa Municipal Hospital, Bogoso Health Centre, Wassa Akropng Government Hospital, Inner City Hospital at Bogoso and Apinto Hospital, a private medical facility at Tarkwa.
The Director of Public Health of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe; the Western Regional Director of Public Health, Dr. Gifty Amugi; Municipal Chief Executive of the Prestea Huni Valley Municipal Assembly, Dr. Isaac Dasmani and Mr.
Francis Abeiku Yankah, the Municipal Director of NADMO, accompanied the Director of Health Services of the Municipality to receive the items.
GNA