KUMBOGSIGO DEV'T. ASSOCIATION DONATES HEALTH EQUIPMENT 21st Nov., 2020

The delivery of health care services, especially primary health care in the Kumbogsigo community, a suburb of the Bolgatanga East District in the Upper East Region, has received a boost following a donation of assorted medical equipment to health authorities in the area.

The Medical Equipment as displayed at the durbar

Chairman of the Kumbogsigo Development Association, Commissioner of Police C.O.P Mr. Patrick Atampubire Akologo made the donation on behalf of his colleagues over the weekend at the celebration of the annual Anongkua Festival by the chiefs and people of the Kumbogsigo community. The festival is a yearly traditional gathering at which, the chiefs and people celebrate in thanks-giving to their gods and ancestors for the bountiful harvest of the previous year. During the celebrations, the traditional leadership also solicits and raise funds for the execution of various development projects across the community.

C.O.P Akolgo revealed that the package, made up of delivery beds with infusion stands, wheel chairs, autoclave machines, stretchers, new-born baby trolleys, BP apparatus sets, incubators, modern hospital beds and bed pan for men amongst many others, was financed by the selfless contributions of the Association’s members and with support from their friends both in Ghana and abroad. He disclosed in addition that, the Association also included in the donation, two fridges, two sets of 43-inches LED Televisions, a motor-king ambulance and a Suzuki motorbike to aid the intra-community daily routines of the health workers.

According to Association’s Chairman who is the Director-General of Protection at the Ghana Police Service, the donated medical equipment were mainly for the Kumbogsigo Clinic but that a few of them would be shared with the Zuarungu Medical Centre as the latter was a referral facility to the former. Meanwhile earlier in the afternoon before zooming into the durbar grounds, the Association handed over some completed expansion works it had undertaken to augment the infrastructure at the Kumbogsigo Clinic with the inclusion of relevant medical equipment.

COP Akolgo [white smock,white hat];clinic hand-over

 

C.O.P Akolgo observed that though government had done its possible best in providing for the basic health needs of his compatriots, people like himself and the multitude of his cherished Association members as well as their sponsors will always step in to give the needed complimentary support as far as it would inure to the utmost benefit of their less-privileged brothers and sisters. He said the Kumbogsigo Development Association was formed about 10 years ago through the mutual consent by indigenes of Kumbogsigo living in major cities of Ghana and in the diaspora with the overriding mandate to harness individual efforts in soliciting funds in support of various forms of development in the wider Kumbogsigo area.

At the point of handing over of the medical equipment which was witnessed by the district’s health authorities, political leadership of the district and the visibly joyous community members, the Chief of Kumbogsigo, Naba Anabila Asuyine thanked and praised the Association for their intervention. He was particularly happy that his subjects such as C.O.P and his fellows have not abandoned their community and prayed that they continued to prosper in their individual endeavours so that they can always spare a bit of their fortune for the benefit of the poor.

The District Health Directorate also presented a citation to C.O.P Akolgo for his unceasing assistance to the health care delivery efforts in the community over time.