We have been heartbroken to lose Vida Wasinaa, one of many devoted farmers in our neighborhood, on the younger age of 46. She was a caring mom to 2 sons, Kwabena and John, a devoted farmer, and a dedicated member of her village financial savings & mortgage affiliation.
Over the previous 8 years, we have now labored with the neighborhood to construct a holistic assist system for our farmers – offering revenue, agricultural coaching, and most not too long ago childcare – however Vida’s premature passing sparked a dialog with our farmers – how can we work collectively to enhance well being outcomes in the neighborhood?
Two main challenges got here to gentle –
First, Ghana has a free nationwide medical health insurance system, however enrollment charges and varieties might be complicated and pose a barrier to entry. Vida, like many within the rural communities the place we work, was not enrolled in medical health insurance and prevented going to the physician for worry of the excessive medical prices. On the suggestion of our farmers, we established a program to enroll every certainly one of our ingrower farmers within the nationwide medical health insurance system. Immediately, we’re proud to say that every one of many farmers on our nucleus farm is enrolled in Ghana’s Nationwide Well being Insurance coverage system.
Second, the well being middle that serves our communities is underfunded and missing important gear and provides. Vida’s situation might need been handled by the succesful medical workers on the native well being middle had the fitting gear and provides been accessible.
On Giving Tuesday 2021, we launched what we hope will likely be simply the beginning of an everlasting partnership with the New Longoro Well being Heart. We set a aim to lift $1100 to supply the medical gear that the docs and nurses recognized as most important.
Along with your assist, we raised 5x that aim – $5500 – sufficient to donate all the requested gadgets (oxygen cylinders, nebulizer machines, wheelchairs, pulse oximeters, privateness screens, new child cot and scale, hand sanitizer, and surgical gloves) and to finish a full renovation of the well being middle.
As Nurse Priscila Owusu factors out “Serenity of a facility helps heal sufferers. Nevertheless, this constructing was put up some 50 years in the past and has since not obtained any main renovation work.”
The workers on the New Longoro Well being Heart mapped out essentially the most urgent renovation wants to make sure safer and extra comfy care for his or her sufferers: a whole overhaul of the bathroom services which had been unusable attributable to disrepair, carpentry and retiling work the principle affected person ward, fixing defective electrical wiring and plumbing, fabricating shelving for document retaining and a recent coat of paint and stonework to guard the constructing and make it an exquisite, peaceable place to work and to obtain therapy.
loading up development supplies for the renovations
development work underway!
Clement Amanfo who works in illness management on the well being middle provides his thanks on your partnership. “I thank the True Moringa neighborhood for his or her sense of humanity and love for the caregivers. Taking steps to supply the requisite logistics for the New Longoro well being facility will assist stop pointless referrals that would have been managed right here. We’re grateful on your kindness and God bless you.”
The Municipal Director of Well being Companies wished to specific his “profound gratitude” for the renovation of the New Longoro Well being Centre, which in his phrases “has now change into a constructing of attraction throughout the New Longoro neighborhood.
“It’s a reward we’ll ceaselessly cherish extra so that you simply got here at a time that anxiousness and resentment have been very excessive amongst workers and the neighborhood members. The medical gadgets donated are important for secure and efficient prevention, prognosis, therapy and rehabilitation of sickness and illnesses. This actually will assist us enhance upon well being service supply throughout the neighborhood and past. We thanks very a lot and need that god richly bless you and preserve you.”
