Offinso (Ashanti), 17th May ?99 ?

Ananse Foundation, a Netherlands-based non-governmental organisation on medicare has presented medical equipment and drugs worth 300 million cedis to Saint Patrick's hospital at Maase and Nkenkasu community health centre both in the Offinso District of Ashanti.

The Foundation is committed to better medical care in urology in hospitals in Africa, south of the Sahara.

The donation is made up of assorted drugs, theatre equipment, beds and mattresses, bed-side lockers

and tables, wheel chairs, cutlery and diathermy machines.

Others are sutures, catheters, theatre instruments, thermometers and stethoscopes, clinical equipment and urological instruments and materials.

Mr Sylvester Barimah-Antwi, African representative of the Foundation who presented the items said the Foundation provides medical, supportive and technical care in the health.

Mr Barimah-Antwi said the Foundation presented theatre equipment worth 60 million cedis to the Saint Patrick's Hospital last year.

He said the Foundation intends to offer training schemes for African medical doctors in urological surgery in an exchange programme.