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Rotary Club International donates
hearing aids to KATH
Kumasi, March 2, GNA- The Rotary Club International on
Thursday donated 330 hearing aids worth 360 million cedis to
the Hearing Assessment Centre of the Komfo Anokye Teaching
Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi.
The aids hearing aids were to be distributed to schools for
the deaf in the country to help students there improve their
sense of hearing.
Speaking at the donation, Professor George Wereko-Brobby,
Director of the Centre at KATH, said deafness acquired after
birth in Africa, has been attributed to preventable
infectious diseases like measles, mumps and meningitis.
He said the Bechem School for the Deaf in the Brong-Ahafo
Region and the Jamasi Schools for the Deaf in Ashanti Region
were to receive 100 hearing aids each while the remaining
130 would be distributed to Cape Coast and Sekondi-Takoradi
Schools for the Deaf.
Prof. Wereko-Brobby urged the people to join the crusade
against "deafness, a hidden, ugly and devastating handicap
which does not deserve sympathy because it is cruel and
uncompromising handicap".
Prof S.O. Asiamah, President of the Rotary Club of Kumasi,
who made the donation on behalf of the Rotary Club
International, said Rotarians were ever ready to assist
people to improve upon their living conditions.
He said KATH in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Kumasi
East has performed surgeries to treat 267 babies who had
clubfoot deformities within the last two years.
Prof Asiamah said the Club has also sunk boreholes for a
number of communities in the Ashanti Region.
He said the Club has undertaken health, hunger and humanity
projects in a number of communities in Ashanti Region at the
cost of 950,000 dollars.
Prof Asiamah said the Club has also presented two land
cruisers vehicles to Domeabra clinic near Tepa and Saint
Martin's Catholic Hospital at Agroyesum to improve upon
health delivery.
Miss Patience Yeboah Ampong, Director of Nursing in KNTH
expressed gratitude to the Rotary Club International for the
assistance towards the plight of the poor.
Prof Geoffrey K. Amedofu, Clinical Audiologist and Head of
the Eye, Nose, Ear and Throat of the Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science and Technology (KNUST) said the
country could not always rely on donations from abroad and
appealed to the government to have a national policy on the
procurement and distribution of hearing aids.
GNA
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