By Edzorna Francis Mensah
Melcom Care Foundation, a humanitarian arm of the Melcom Group of Companies, has made some donations to the Ghana Armed Forces, Nursing Services, and the Graphic Clinic under Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) in Accra for quality health deliveries.
At a short ceremony held in Accra on Wednesday, October 18, 2023, the Group Communications Director at Melcom, Godwin Avenorgbo, presented to the military one Akai 20L microwave equipment and one Akai home theatre system in support of the ongoing 2023 Military Nightingales’ week as part of this year’s International Nurses Week celebration themed ‘Military Nightingales, Our Future’.
He said the donation is to support some of the deserving nurses that will be honoured for their outstanding performances at the weeklong celebrations.
While congratulating the award winners, he urged them to continue to hold the banner of military service excellence in high esteem, as he noted that “the Military Hospital establishment has provided quality healthcare to communities and individuals in many parts of the country in addition to taking care of the health needs of members of the Ghana Armed Forces”.
Mr. Avenorgbo also presented an undisclosed cheque to sponsor this year’s Graphic Clinic Health Care Screening Project under the Graphic Communications Group’s Corporate Social Responsibility activities at Adabraka Accra.
According to him, the Melcom Care Foundation will meet the cost of all essential inputs for quality health care delivery and allowances, and he maintained that “our criteria have always been about identifying bodies which render invaluable services to the general public in a consistent and professional manner devoid of discrimination” and reiterated the point that “Melcom Care’s collaboration efforts with credible media institutions in Ghana, in addition to gathering and disseminating news, have taken on the responsibility of meeting humanitarian needs with particular reference to one of the main pillars of the Melcom Care Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives, and that is health”.
The former broadcaster recalled “that even as a civilian teacher of the then Ghana Armed Forces Complex Schools at Burma Camp, I was privileged to enjoy the services of Ghana Armed Forces Medical Facilities everywhere they were available in Ghana from 1968 until 1973, when I switched profession from teaching to broadcasting. The evidence therefore is validated, and that has been the practice and is still the norm”.
Major Alfred K. Ampong, Deputy Director, Nursing Services NMC Theatres, and Emmanuel Adjei Arthur, Corporate Manager at Graphic Communications Group Limited, both were grateful to Melcom and promised to put the items to good use and the purposes for which the donations were made in the greater interest of their respective institutions.