Herona Company Limited, supplier of Medical equipment and pharmaceutical products and Media General’s 3Foundation on Tuesday donated medical equipment and devices to the 37 Military Hospital.
The items worth over GHC 300,000 included; disposable gowns with face masks, shoe covers, caps, infusion stands, stool and urine containers, patient monitors, suction machines, electronic spraying machines, nebulizers for asthmatics, stretcher beds ward screens, vaginal speculums, and Sphygmomanometers (Reister).
The donation by the organisations was in response to the on-going crisis around the world and in Ghana as a result of the COVID -19 pandemic.
This was in a statement issued to the Ghana News Agency in Accra.
Major Christine Oko (Rtd), the Director of Herona Company Limited, said “we are doing this to support the 37 Military Hospital as it prepares to play its critical role in the COVID–19 management efforts being rolled out by the Government of Ghana.
These items are to help in the care of patients and also protect the frontline staff who would be on call to manage such cases.
Mr Chris Koney, the Group Head of Corporate Affairs, Media General, reiterated 3Foundation’s commitment to enriching lives and empowering Ghanaians across the country with interventions in health, education and community development.
“We are in unusual times at the moment and as a leading Media Company, it is important to contribute our quota to efforts by the government to ensure that COVID– 19 was contained. That is the motivation for 3Foundation’s partnership with Herona Company Limited today to present these items”, he added.
The 3 Foundation is the Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility management structure for Media General.
GNA
