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The Kofi Job Foundation, a philanthropic arm of Kofi Job Construction Limited, has paid an amount of GHc 1,000,000.00 to settle the bills of 250 patients in three health facilities in the Ashanti Region.
The patients were admitted at the Tafo Government Hospital, Manhyia Government Hospital, and the Kumasi South Hospital at Kyirapatre. At the Tafo Hospital, an amount of GH₵120, 000.00 was paid to offset the bills of drugs and surgeries of sick people. A total of GH₵250,000.00 was given to management of the Manhyia Hospital to settle debts of some patients.
At the Kumasi South Hospital, the management of the facility presented the number of all patients who owed the facility, which included three children in need of emergency surgeries for cancer in the eye and kidney care. An amount of more than GH₵400,000.00 was paid for the doctors to immediately start treatment for the kids, who were battling for their lives. Mr Kofi Gyebi and wife, Esther Okyere Gyebi, founders of the organization, speaking to journalists after the separate presentations at the facilities, said it was necessary to put smiles on the faces of people.
They expressed satisfaction at the contribution they had made to the welfare of people, adding that one did not have to be rich before trying to help others, and called on members of society not to hesitate in extending assistance to the needy. Mr Kofi Gyebi, who owns the Kofi Job Construction Limited, noted that the Foundation would continue to offer such help to people adding that, other health facilities such as the Suntreso and the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospitals had already benefitted from such gestures.
Mr Gyamfi Yeboah, Kumasi South Hospital Administrator, commended the philanthropist for the kind gesture, saying it was a big relief to the facility. He explained that if patients were unable to settle their bills, the hospital may have to squeeze monies from the little revenue meant to purchase consumables, and this often-impeded delivery of required services for clients. He said the hospital needed incubators for the pediatric ward, continuous positive airway pressure machines, blood pressure apparatus, pulse oximeters, patient mattresses, wheelchairs, medicine trolleys, among others.
Mr Yeboah appealed to the government to help the facility complete its stalled maternity project, which was started in the year 2000 to help ease the congestion at the existing maternity ward. The management of the other beneficiary hospitals pleaded for more assistance in expanding their wards, and the purchase of essential equipment to help in saving more lives.
Source: GNA
