The International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) on Tuesday donated an Incubator valued at GhC22,000.00 to the Holy Family Catholic Hospital at Berekum in the Bono Region.

The Church made the donation in response to an appeal made by Daasebre Dr. Amankona Diawuo II, the Paramount Chief of Berekum Traditional Area who is also a specialist Surgeon at the Sunyani Regional Hospital.

Reverend Christopher Yaw Annor, the Senior Pastor of the Holy Ghost Temple, the ICGC branch at Frafraha in the Adenta Municipality of Greater Accra Region who did the presentation said it was part of the Church’s commitment this year (2019) to donate an incubator each to a hospital in 10 selected regions in the country.

He said the items, with a total cost of GHC220,000.00 was to support the effort of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in preventing neo-natal deaths due to lack of adequate amount of incubators in the nation’s health facilities.

Rev Annor, a Presbytery member of the ICGC and also a Council member of the Central University stressed the need for the government, as a matter of urgency through the Ministry of Health and the GHS to launch a national campaign to prevent neo-natal deaths arising from the absence of incubators.

He expressed regret that neo-natal deaths contributed to child mortality and hoped that the success of such a campaign would contribute greatly to save the lives of many pre-term babies who might not have survived.

Rev. Annor announced that the Holy Ghost Temple had also been undertaking series of social intervention activities in education and health, citing that in 2018, an incubator and other hospital equipment were donated to the Kintampo Government Hospital in the Bono East Region.

The Church also inaugurated a six-bedroom teachers’ bungalow for the Chiranda Basic School, where it had earlier constructed a modern three-classroom Junior High School (JHS) block in the Kintampo North Municipality.
A fully-furnished staff common room, headmaster’s office, a book store and a computer laboratory with 30 computers and accessories were provided in the JHS block, he added.

Daasebre Dr. Diawuo explained he was informed to make the request not only as a personal friend of Rev. Annor, but because the Hospital which celebrated the 70th anniversary of its establishment in December 2018 needed it.

He expressed profound appreciation of the gesture by the Church and hoped that it would be highly beneficial to the Hospital’s mission of saving lives.