Twenty (20) babies born on December 25, 2021, at the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua (ERHK) have received special hampers from MTN Ghana.
According to the management of the hospital, 15 babies were born on Christmas day at the hospital while an additional five were referred from other facilities.
Ebenezer Okaikoi Tetteh who led the MTN team to the hospital said MTN is sharing in the joy of the season that “we are here on boxing day to show love to mothers of babies born on Christmas Day. We have 100 baby hampers for distribution at Pentecost Hospital and Madina Polyclinic. As we speak, MTN Ghana through its employee volunteers in distributing baby hampers in all 16 regions of Ghana.”
He said, this year, MTN distributed a total of 500 hampers at a cost of GHC 150,000 across the country at selected hospitals.
Given historical antecedents to the gesture, Mr. Ebenezer Okaikoi Tetteh explained that MTN commenced the baby hamper distribution in 2011 and had so far distributed over 2,000 hampers including this year to babies born on Christmas Day.
He stated that “the donation is one of the many ways the MTN Ghana Foundation has catered for the health needs of several individuals and medical institutions across Ghana. The Project started with a few regions however by 2020 all the then 10 regions have been included. Today we are in all 16 regions distributing hampers. We see the occasion as a season of giving and also of love and amid Covid-19, MTN counts is very important to still reach out to our dear mothers and lovely babies born on Christmas Day to show them the MTN kind of love. We congratulate the mothers and we use the occasion to wish our customers and stakeholders a very Merry Christmas”.
Ms. Joana York Amoah who is the deputy in charge at the Lying -Inward at the – Eastern Regional hospital on behalf of management expressed her gratitude to MTN Ghana Foundation for the gifts to the newborn babies.
She however requested that “the postnatal care unit is challenged with a lot of problems regarding women who after delivering are not able to afford their bills and remain in their care for a longer period, therefore individuals and NGO’s should come to their aid”.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/N. Kwaku Solomon
