The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) Medical Clinic is now able to offer employees and community members better health service thanks to a donation by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on September 4, 2024. The Church donated hospital beds, wheelchairs, otoscopes and stethoscopes, oxygen cylinders, thermometers, blood pressure monitors, an autoclave, and other vital medical equipment to the clinic which serves residents of Kanda and the nearby community of Nima in Accra, Ghana.
Elder Annan-Simons, an Area Seventy, participates in official hand-off ceremony for donating medical equipment to the Ghana Broadcasting company Medical Clinic on 4 September, 2024.
Elder Annan-Simons, an Area Seventy, participates in official hand-off ceremony for donating medical equipment to the Ghana Broadcasting company Medical Clinic on 4 September, 2024.© 2024 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.Elder Samuel Annan-Simons, an Area Seventy of The Church, made the formal presentation to the clinic. Accepting the donation for the GBC was Mr. John Kwame Waja, Director of Legal Services for the GBC. Speaking on behalf of the GBC, he expressed profound gratitude to the Church for its donation.
In making the presentation, Elder Annan-Simons explained that funds for the donation were taken from the offerings of Church members who fast for two meals once a month and then donate the monies that would have been spent on those meals. Referring to those donations, he said, "We believe in the teaching of Christ for us to love our neighbours as ourselves, and this is one of the gestures to show how our neighbours are important to us.
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The Kanda, and especially the Nima areas are some of the poorest in Accra, where other local clinics and hospitals in the area are overwhelmed and understaffed to meet the needs in the area. The single doctor of the GBC Clinic, Dr. Bright Ameyaw, who is assisted by two nurses and three staff, treats malaria, typhoid, cholera, and other common ailments, but the lack of medical equipment had limited their ability to provide sufficient medical help. Dr. Ameyaw noted that "without these items, my work has been difficult for me. Me having these items, I think, my work will now be OK, and I can work and save lives as expected from me." He expressed that the donation from The Church provides a much needed boost to the treatments they offer.
On the Friday following the ceremony, the GBC invited representatives of The Church to appear on TV Ghana's Breakfast Show to explain how humanitarian efforts roll forth across the world. Elder James Owusu-Ansah, Director of Communications in the Africa West Area, along with Elder Creg and Sister Sondra Ostler, the humanitarian senior missionaries who initiated and managed the project, were able to share, on Ghanaian national TV, key aspects of the Church's humanitarian efforts as well as of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The TV broadcast was followed up by an interview over Radio Ghana covering the same topics.
Brother James Owusu-Ansah, Sister Sondra Ostler, and Elder Creg Ostler appear on TV Ghana's Breakfast Show to speak to a national audience about the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Church's humanitarian efforts on 6 September 2024.
Brother James Owusu-Ansah, Sister Sondra Ostler, and Elder Creg Ostler appear on TV Ghana's Breakfast Show to speak to a national audience about the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Church's humanitarian efforts on 6 September 2024.© 2024 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.The GBC, which has been in existence since 1954, is the national public broadcaster of Ghana and operates various radio and television channels, including Radio Ghana and also TV Ghana, which is the main national TV channel. GBC originally established its medical clinic in the early 1970's to provide essential clinical services to its employees, but it has expanded its service to local residents as well.