By Lawrencia Akoto Frempong
Tema, Nov. 01, GNA-The Ga Ladies Association has donated some items to the Tema Metropolitan Assembly’s (TMA) Health Centre on its tenth-anniversary celebration.
The items, which included 100 pieces of bedsheets and a refrigerator, are to help provide quality health services to patients and also help in the storage of vaccines and antibiotics to prevent contamination.
The Ga Ladies Association is a non-governmental Christian organisation comprising women with Ga lineage, either maternal or paternal, who reside in Tema and its environs.
Ms Delphina Naaja Jones, a founding member and the president of the association told the Ghana News Agency in an interview that the association was founded 10 years ago by some Ga Christian ladies to give back to the communities they are in.
She stated that the association adopted the TMA Health Centre, which caters for women and children, to support it with some needed items for the proper delivery and provision of health care services.
“The health centre came to us with some problems, and as part of our celebration, we decided to donate these needed items to them,” she said.
Ms Jones called on Ga ladies to join the association and contribute towards their philanthropic activities within the Tema communities.
Ms Sheila Tettey, an executive member of the association, mentioned that it has also donated 100 pieces of bedsheets, towels, and other healthcare supplies to the Pantang Hospital as part of the celebration, adding that they were putting things together to help orphans in Tema Newtown in the Tema East constituency.
She urged the public, especially women, to get their breasts examined to avoid early detection and treatment of breast cancer.
She added that people must know their breasts and report immediately to the hospital when they see any changes, cautioning against self-medication and herbs.
Ms Tettey further encouraged women diagnosed with breast cancer not to be scared when the doctors suggest that the breast-infected breast must be removed, stating that removing the breast would help save their lives, which is the most important.
Ms Catherine Kortey, the Head of the institution, expressed her profound gratitude to the association for the items, saying it would go a long way to help the centre in the discharge of its service.
She added that the Ga Ladies Association has been a great patron to the centre and encouraged them to continually support them to help them give better delivery services to the community.
She also advised women to subject themselves to breast cancer and cervical cancer screenings, as early detection goes a long way toward increasing the survival rates of women.
She mentioned that breast cancer and cervical cancer are curable when detected early, encouraging them to also take the cervical cancer vaccination and go for frequent breast examinations.
GNA