Bliss GVS Pharma donates antimalarial drugs to Ghanaian Hospital

GHANA – Global Pharmaceutical Company Bliss GVS Pharma Ghana has donated highly effective antimalarial drugs to the Tamale Teaching Hospital to strengthen the facility’s ability to respond to the tropical disease.

Bliss GVS Pharma pledged to continue the medical donations in selected regions in Ghana while engaging communities with health talks to educate people on personal hygiene and other preventive measures against malaria.

The donations will empower healthcare providers to treat complex malaria cases and create more awareness about the malaria burden in Ghana and Africa.

The antimalarial drugs will also be resourceful to people from vulnerable areas who come to the Tamale Teaching Hospital for malaria treatment but lack finances to buy the basic antimalarial drugs.

In addition to that, the drugs will be used to treat children who have malaria to reduce the increasing mortality rates caused by malaria since the disease is the leading cause of admissions at the children’s ward and the leading cause of attendance at the hospital’s polyclinic.

Bliss GVS Pharma Ghana earlier donated drugs worth GHS30,000 (US$3960.84) to the Tamale Hospital to help in the fight against malaria in an effort geared towards realizing a malaria-free continent.

The company also visited the Nurses and Midwives Training College in Tamale where the company donated antimalarial drugs and other medicines worth GHS8,000(US$ 1056.22).

The Medical Representative for Bliss GVS Pharma in Tamale Seidu Ibrahim Mumuni assured the Tamale Hospital’s medical staff that the company was committed to eradicating Malaria from Ghana and Africa at large by providing antimalarial drugs particularly Lonart.

Ghanaian Health Directorates receive medical equipment

Meanwhile, the Council of Brong-Ahafo Associations of North America (COBAANA) has donated 15 surgical equipment valued at US$2,500 each to the Bono, Bono East and Ahafo regions Health Directorates in Ghana.

The US$37,500 surgical equipment will be distributed to the three regions to ensure the proper storage and sterilization of surgical tools and other devices to prevent infections.

The COBAANA Health Committee Chairman Dr. De-Graft Kwafo Gyan led a team of local representatives of the Association presented the medical equipment to the Bono Regional Health Directorate through Madam Justina Owusu-Banahene, the Bono Regional Minister.

Honorable Owusu-Banahene urged the Health Directorates to assist with effective monitoring and supervision measures for beneficiary hospitals to ensure good maintenance of the machines to justify appeal for more of that and other equipment.

She further added that the provision of the surgical equipment is in line with the government’s Agenda 111 Project and other measures to enhance quality health service delivery and improve the health system in Ghana.

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