Mampong (Ash), April 14, GNA - The management of the Asante-Mampong Anglican Babies Home has made an urgent appeal for financial assistance to save the life of Patrick Atta Osei Sarpong, a four-year-old hole-in-heart orphan of the Home.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency at Mampong on Thursday, Miss Mabel Asafu-Adjaye, the superintendent of the Home said, Sarpong was diagnosed to have a "complex hole-in-heart condition that required surgery for correction" in November last year.

She said the total cost of the operation, which would be carried out at the Cardio Thoracic Centre of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital was estimated at 7,000 Euros in December last year.

According to Miss Asafu-Adjaye, the Ghana Heart Foundation has pledged to assist in absorbing half of the bill, while the rest of the cost is to be raised from other sources.

A pastoral letter signed by the Board Chairman of the Home, the Right Reverend Daniel Yinkah Sarfo, Anglican Bishop of Kumasi, indicated that the health of Sarpong was fast deteriorating, thus, the need for "this passionate appeal for financial help".

"Please, come over to Mampong Anglican Babies Home and save Patrick Atta Osei Sarpong, before it is too late", the letter stated. The Home, an orphanage of the Anglican Diocese of Kumasi, was established in 1967, as the fourth orphanage in the country. It admits babies, whose mothers have died during or after delivery, babies of mentally ill mothers, abandoned babies, handicapped babies and babies of convicted mothers.

The babies are either admitted directly from the maternity wing of the Mampong District Hospital or are brought to the Home by relatives.

The Home takes care of them until they are four years, healthy and strong, then they are re-integrated into the society under various arrangements.