Authorities at Agogo Presbyterian Hospital in the Asante Akim District of Ashanti have appealed to the public, especially the youth, to cultivate the habit of donating blood regularly to the hospital to enhance the emergency treatment of cases.
According to the authorities, inadequate blood donation to the hospital sometimes undermined quality healthcare delivery and, therefore, pleaded with the youth to develop the spirit to donate blood to save patients who needed emergency treatment.
The nurse/administrator of the Agogo Presbyterian Hospital, Mrs Mary Tenkorang, made the appeal when about 150 members of the Asante Akim North and South Area of the Apostolic Church-Ghana, donated blood to the hospital last Sunday.
Apart from donating blood, the members also donated quantities of curtains, estimated at GH¢2,500, to the hospital for the decoration of the Labour and Children’s wards.
The donation formed part of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the church.
Mrs Tenkorang commended members of the church for their sense of initiative and pleaded with other churches to emulate their example.
Briefing newsmen on the gesture by the church, the Area Superintendent, Pastor Kwabina Tagba, said it was motivated by the problems of inadequate blood facing the hospital authorities.
He pointed out that while the blood donation would go a long way to save lives, the curtains would beautify both the Labour and Children’s wards to speed up the recovery of patients.
Pastor Tagba, who was the first to donate blood, after going through screening, said the gesture would be sustained.
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