Wednesday, 15th September, 2021b

DAILY ANALYST
Wednesday, 15th September, 2021 Page 7
Story: Freeman
Koryekpor Awlesu
The Director of Health
Promotion at the Ghana
Health Service, Dr Da
Costa Aboagye, Head of
Mission at the Diaspora
African Forum, H. E. Dr Erieka
Bennett, and Gee Medical Supplies
of South Africa, have donated a
state-of-the-art high capacity flow
respiratory humidifier oxygenator
and assorted Personal Protective
Equipment worth US$25,000 to
the Agogo Presbyterian Hospital.
Speaking at the event, Dr
Da Costa said this was a private
donation from him and his
partners dedicated to show
immense appreciation of his
Mom, Mrs Justicia Frimpong–
Aboagye, who worked at the Agogo
Hospital for over 43 years as a
Midwife and his senior brother,
Dr William Arhin Thompson, who
retired on 12th September, 2021,
after serving for over 30 years as a
Surgeon and Medical Director of
the hospital.
According to him, he was born
Individuals donate respiratory
at the Hospital, schooled and lived
in Agogo and Kumawu until he
travelled to the United Kingdom
for further studies.
He further noted that by
the grace of God, he has a lot
of international and local
networks which he will leverage
to help Agogo and Kumawu
municipalities respectively.
He charged the doctors and
nurses to use the equipment at
the Intensive Care Unit not only
to help reduce the Covid-19 deaths
but to save lives of patients who
will need oxygen in other critical
respiratory illnesses.
He posited that severe and
critically ill patients often have
hypoxemia and dyspnea and
proper respiratory support
treatment was required. High-flow
nasal oxygen therapy (HFNC), like
the high capacity flow respiratory
humidifier oxygenator, has
greater advantages over
conventional oxygen therapy.
The acting Medical Director
on behalf of the hospital
management and staff of the
hospital, Dr Kennedy Opoku,
thanked Dr Dacosta Abaogye, H.E.
Dr. Erieka Bennett, Ambassador
of Diaspora Africa Forum, Gee
Medical Supplies of South Africa
and Dr Ryan of AMI for the items
donated and promised to use
them to save lives.
2020 MMDCEs Vetting Committee
recommend Tarkwa-Nsuaem
MCE to be given 2nd chance
Story: Freeman
Koryekpor Awlesu
Documents intercepted
by the DAILY Analyst
indicates that a
report by members
of the state legally
constituted 2020 Vetting Committee
of Metropolitan, Municipal
and District Chief Executives
(MMDCEs) in the Western Region
has unanimously recommended
for the re-appointment of the
incumbent Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipal
Chief Executive (MCE), Mr
Benjamin Kessie.
The committee in the report
appealed to President Nana Addo
Dankwa Akufo-Addo to maintain
Mr Kessie as the Tarkwa-Nsuaem
MCE to ensure peace and development
in the area.
In the said report, the members
of the vetting committee
after vetting the prospective
candidates vying for the position
of the MCE in Tarkwa-Nsuaem
equally shortlisted three in the
persons of Mr Benjamin Kessie,
Mr Francis Arisi Eliason and Mr
Isaac Blay for the position of the
MCE.
But the members of the vetting
committee in their wisdom
recommended to the President
who is the final appointing personality
to re-appoint Mr Kessie
for nomination as the MCE for
the second term of the area.
The committee’s report
recommended Mr Kessie for renomination
as MCE, adding that
Mr Kessie is a hardworking MCE
who, from all accounts, contributed
to the victory of the party in
the 2020 general election.
According to the report, the
incumbent MCE was a three-term
former Assembly member of the
Tarkwa- Nsuaem Municipality
from 2010-2019 and former Presiding
Member from 2017 to 2019.
The report pointed out the
MCE has also served as constituency
secretary for three terms
from 2009 to date.
The report noted that Mr Kessie
holds a Certificate in Marketing,
Public Relations and Advertising
from the Ghana Institute
of Management and Public
Administration, a Certificate in
Safe Management from the University
of Mines and Technology,
a BA of Education in Foundations
of Education UCC, and also MA
in Governance and Sustainable
Development from UCC.
The committee members described
Mr Kessie as a hardworking
government appointee who
has a good working relationship
with the MP for the area.
The chiefs in the area also
called on the president to re-appoint
Mr Kessie.
“We also want use this
opportunity to humbly remind
the President that, we are for the
development of Tarkwa-Nsuaem,
and believe that the MP should
be supported by a hardworking
and a dedicated Municipal Chief
Executive.”
“On this call, we humbly call
on Mr President to re-appoint
Hon. Benjamin Kessie since he
has performed remarkably in a
short period with a very cordial
working relationship with the
MP and Nananom.
…We believe the combination
of the duo coupled with
our support will accelerate the
needed development in Tarkwa-Nsauem,"
the chiefs noted.
Writer's email: koryekporfreeman@yahoo.com
‘Parents abandon blind
students in Akropong’
Story: Freeman
Koryekpor Awlesu
Information reaching DAILY
Analyst points to the lack
of parental care for many
students of the School for
the Blind in Akropong in
Akuapem United North Municipality
in the Eastern Region.
The Headmistress of Akuapem
Akropong School for the Blind,
Madam Veronica Derry, revealed
the challenges facing the students
of the school.
She told DAILY Analyst that
while of parents have rejected
their wards, others have neglected
their children, making lives of
these students very difficult.
She was speaking the paper
recently during a donation by the
International Palace Church.
The church presented some
bags of rice, oil, toiletries, sanitary
pads and many more to the school
as part of their 24th anniversary
celebration
According to Madam Derry,
some visually impaired students
have been left to their fate as they
have been abandoned by their
guardians and parents.
She explained that guardians
show little or no concern by way
of not visiting or calling authorities
to inquire about the welfare of
their wards.
She further lamented how
parents refuse to pick their wards
up when school vacates. "Even on
vacations, parents don't show any
sign of picking their children up,"
she averred.
She stated that the situation
was worrisome as students even
call on her for transport fare to
enable them get to their various
destinations.
The alarming situation, which
Madam Derry stated, was putting
serious pressure on the school authorities
to cater for the children.
However, she admitted that
some of these students were very
brilliant and innovative, adding
that some of them have euphonic
voices to sing well.
The headmistress also talked
about how challenging it was to
feed the students.
She pointed out that they solely
cannot rely on the government
as the students’ needs were above
government funds and support,
hence appealed for support.
Madam Derry therefore
thanked individuals and organisations
who always supported
her school, and called on other
institutions to come to their aid
as well.
According to the headmistress,
key on the list of challenges
faced by the school was the lack of
educational materials and other
structures and a walkway to some
departments to prevent avoidable
accidents where some students
miss their steps and fall thereby
resulting in injuries.
Earlier, the Head Pastor of
International Palace Church at
Madina in Accra, Pastor Bernard
Mensah Adam, noted that the
church was not there to preach
but to contribute its quota and
dispensation of their corporate
social responsibility as a religious
organisation.
He called on other institutions
to come to the aid of the school as
they also had special needs.
"Government cannot do it
alone so we all have a role to play
in ensuring their needs are met.