SMILE TRAIN SUPPORTS CLEFT UNIT (PAGE 29, MIRROE, MARCH 27, 2010)

Story & Picture: George Ernest Asare, Kumasi.

A US based Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), Smile Train, has donated a cheque for $35,000.00 to the Cleft Unit of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, (KATH) for the purchase of a bus to facilitate the hospital’s outreach programmes.
The NGO gave another cheque for $8,000 to the Cleft team to enable them extend their outreach programmes to the northern parts of Ghana.
This, according to Mr Remi Adeseun, the West Africa Regional Director of Smile Train, would enable children in the Northern Sector of Ghana with cleft problems to benefit from the services of the Cleft team to reduce the trauma they went through.
Mr Adeseum commended the Cleft Team for providing services that were bringing broad smiles to parents whose children suffered from such deformities.
Professor Peter Donkor, head of the Cleft Unit of the KATH, who received the cheques on behalf of the team, commended the NGO for the gesture and promised to use the money for the desired purpose.
Mrs Patience Yeboah Ampong, Director of Nursing of the KATH, assured that the management would continue to support the team to sustain their operations and to offer the needed services to children with cleft problems.