The University of Virginia (UVA) Health System in Charlottesville, USA has donated a quantity of medical supplies to the Ghana Association of Charlottesville to support health care delivery in Ghana.

The medical supplies worth about $40,000 were donated to the Association under the Medical Equipment Recovery of Clean Inventory (MERCI) Program of the UVA Health System.

Madam Trena Berg (RN), the Clinical Coordinator of the MERCI Program handed over the items to the Ghana Association of Charlottesville through the immediate past Mayor of the City of Charlottesville, Mr. Dave Norris who has been spearheading a number of developmental projects in Winneba in the Central Region of Ghana. The Clinical Coordinator of MERCI Progarm stated that the UVA Health System will continue to support health care delivery in Ghana and expressed the hope that the medical supplies would go a long way to benefit the people of Ghana.

Receiving the items on behalf of the Ghana Association of Charlottesville, Mr. Dave Norris expressed gratitude to the UVA Health System for donating the medical supplies to the Association. “It is wonderful to see the University of Virginia Health System and the Ghana Association of Charlottesville continuing to work together to support health care delivery in Ghana and I hope the partnership between UVA Health System and the Association will continue into the future”, he added.

The Chairman of the Ghana Association of Charlottesville, Nana Akyeampong-Ghartey said that was the second time the UVA Health System was donating medical supplies to the Association. He disclosed that the Charlottesville Sister Cities Commission also donated some money to the Association to cover part of the cost of shipping the medical supplies to Ghana.

Nana Akyeampong-Ghartey stated that the medical supplies would be distributed to some hospitals and health care centres in Ghana including Winneba, Dixcove, Juaben-Ashanti, Asankragua, Tumu, Accra, Kumasi, Kwahu Abetifi, Koforidua, Ho, Otuam, Cape Coast, Sekondi Takoradi, among others.

By Augustine Arthur, Charlottesville, USA