Rotary Club presents wheelchairs to 37 Military Hospital

The Rotary Club of Accra-Labone has presented 30 wheelchairs to the 37 Military Hospital in Accra as part of the club's Wheels for Hope project.

The project aims to donate over 100 wheelchairs to health facilities across the country.

The President of the Rotary Club of Accra-Labone, Rotarian Lamtiig Apanga, presenting the items to the Commander of the 37 Military Hospital, Brigadier General E. C. Saka Jnr, said they procured the wheelchairs with proceeds from a fundraising walk they organised in February this year.

“With the support of G2 Laboratory Services and other institutions and voluntary contributions from ordinary Ghanaians along the streets, the club has so far distributed 80 wheelchairs to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital and Korle Bu Polyclinic, and now the 37 Military Hospital,” he said.

Brig. Gen. Saka expressed gratitude to the Rotarians for the donation,saying the gesture would bring relief to the hospital staff who were forced to improvise when they had to transport patients around the hospital.

Plight of hospital

According to Brig. Gen. Saka, the referral hospital was not used to receiving such donations, hence some facilities in the hospital were outmoded and needed urgent replacement.

“We are left out of any corporate donation to medical facilities on grounds that everything is well with us but only the heavens can describe the ordeal our staff go through as they attend to patients.

“We are further challenged by the nature of our calling as military personnel do not embark on industrial action as others do, but the time has come for us to call a spade by its name,” he said.

Brig. Gen. Saka also lamented the absence of staff bungalows and hostels for nursing mothers, adding that staff commute from far places to work and that was not the best for a hospital which would celebrate its 75th anniversary soon.