World Vision Ghana on Tuesday donated large quantities of medical supplies to some health facilities in six districts in the Upper East and the Northern regions worth GH?1,561,000 to improve healthcare delivery.

The beneficiary districts included the Kassena Nankana, Garu and Bawku West in the Upper East Region and Jirapa and Karaga districts in the Upper West and Northern regions respectively.

Mr Hubert Charles, the National Director of World Vision Ghana, presenting the supplies to beneficiaries at Savelugu in the Savelugu/Nantong Municipality, stressed the importance of quality healthcare delivery to the well-being of the people.

He said since 1979, World Vision had been pursuing integrated community development interventions in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Health, Education, Food Security and Economic Empowerment as well as Child Protection as means of alleviating the challenges of vulnerable children and their families.

He said World Vision was targeting 6.4 million children and their families in Ghana for support and that the donation was one of the steps it was taking to support the Government of Ghana to address health gaps in terms of logistics.

Mr Charles said World Vision would continue to source funding and resources to help supply healthcare equipment as means of addressing health needs of the people in its operational areas.

Madam Modesta Dery, the Gifts-in-Kind Co-ordinator of World Vision, said the medical supplies were donated by World Vision USA and World Vision Canada and expressed regret about the bottlenecks associated in clearing medical equipment and supplies at Ghana’s ports, which was hampering their work.

Madam Lawrencia Ziwu, the Assistant Northern Regional Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Health, who received the supplies, expressed gratitude to World Vision for the gesture adding that it would help address some health gaps in the beneficiary districts.

She appealed to the beneficiaries to use the suppliers for the intended purposes and appealed to World Vision to consider extending its operations to all rural areas in the north to ensure that rural health facilities benefited from their benevolence.

Mr Joseph Yieleh Chire, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health, said government recognised the immense contribution of World Vision and other development partners to the health sector and that the committee would help remove all bottlenecks at the ports to ensure speedy clearance of charity medical equipment.