Ghana Re Donates GH¢200,000 to Vital Health and Education Institutions

The Ghana Reinsurance PLC (Ghana Re) has presented cheques totalling GH¢200,000 to three selected health and educational institutions in line with its annual corporate social responsibility (CSR). The institutions are Lifeline for Childhood Cancer Ghana (LCCG), GH¢50,000; the University of Cape Coast School of Business, GH¢ 50,000 and the Ghana Heart Foundation (GHF), GH¢100,000. Making the donation, the Managing Director of Ghana Re, Seth Kobla Aklasi, said the firm had, over the years, supported LCCG, a patient organisation and fundraising foundation partner for the Paediatric Oncology Treatment Unit of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, as well as the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. Lifeline LCCG, he said, was dedicated to making childhood cancer a national health priority in Ghana by facilitating increased access to optimal treatment and care for children affected by cancer in Ghana. “Our donation of GH¢50,000.00 to LCCG, today, is to assist with the building of a new 40-bed Paediatric Oncology Centre at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital to cater for more children because the current ward at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital can only take 25 children at a time and there are about 500 new cases each year, with many children being turned away. Heart foundation Mr Aklasi said the GHF was a charitable entity that supported the National Cardiothoracic Centre at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital by facilitating public donations for heart-related research, patient care and creating a supportive environment for heart health in the country. The GHF, he said, had over the years supported every Ghanaian patient undergoing heart surgery to the tune of 50 per cent to 100 per cent of surgeries and that had been made possible because of donations that the foundation received from individuals and organisations. UCC Business School Mr Aklasi said the UCC School of Business had been running business programmes for the past 50 years. Currently, he said the UCC School of Business had 37 programmes (undergraduate, Master’s and doctoral) with the potential to add 24 new programmes within the next four years.