The Employees and Suppliers of Edikan Gold Mine at Ayanfuri in the Central Region have donated assorted items including Personal Protective Equipment to Seven Health Centres in the Central and Western Region.
The gesture was to support the fight against the novel coronavirus.
The items included boxes of hand gloves, hand sanitizers, nose masks, Veronica buckers and poly tanks.
The beneficiary health Centres are Dunkwa-on-Offin Government Hospital, Diaso Hospital, Wassa Akropong Hospital, Ayanfuri Pentecost Clinic.
The rest are Abenabena Health Centres and Fobinso Chips Compound.
Speaking to GBC’s Radio Ghana, the Sustainability Director of Perseus Mining Ghana, Edikan Gold Mine, Mr Edwin Allotey Aquaye, said the company could not sit unconcerned for the virus to spread.
He indicated that the company which operates in five communities in the two regions has already made a lot of donations aside from the education programmes it carried out.
The employees and the Suppliers, therefore, thought it wise to emulate the mother company
The Acting District Director of Health, Upper Denkyira West District in the Central region, Seth Brako, who received the items on behalf of the health institutions thanked the donors for the gesture.
Mr Brako noted that the donations had come at an opportune time because government alone cannot bear the responsibilities.
He further appealed to other organisations and individuals to emulate the gesture.
The donors used the opportunity to educate the inhabitants on the need to observe social distancing protocols among others.
