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Seventeen (17) physically challenged persons who could neither stand
nor walk on their own, now have the opportunity to freely move around
with the help of prosthetic limbs fitted courtesy of staff of Access
Bank (Ghana) Limited.
The beneficiaries were fitted with customised artificial limbs by the
National Prosthetics and Orthotics Centre (NPOC) over a four week
period and trained to exercise their new body parts before their
discharge from the centre.
The latest humanitarian initiative forms part of Access Bank's
Employee Volunteering Program which allows staff to invest their time,
skills and financial resources in meaningful projects within
communities where the Bank operates.
Addressing the Group and members of the Centre during a short ceremony
to climax the 4-week project, Dr. Thompson, Head of Prosthetics at the
Centre expressed profound appreciation to staff of Access Bank for
their sponsorship.
"The centre for a very long time has supported the whole country with
very little resource in terms of human capital and other logistics
needed to bring relief to patients.
This gesture is very heart warming and we ask other stakeholders to
join hands to ensure that people with disabilities are catered for in
the community", he urged.
The Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Ebenezer Appiah
Denkyira who was the special guest at the event, noted that until
recently, the National Prosthetic and Orthotics Centre used wood to
generate limbs, making them rather difficult to use. But with the help
of prosthetics, more refined limbs can now be manufactured within two
days.
He said "the intervention by Access Bank is helping to alleviate the
hospital's financial and logistical constraints" and called on other
public spirited organisations and individuals to support what he
called the "laudable initiative to improve the health care delivery
system in Ghana"
The Executive Director for Operations and IT in Access Bank, Kameel
Adebayo, who is also a member of the staff volunteering group, was
excited by the outcome of their intervention, said "the smiles on the
patients' faces as they try out their limbs is priceless and we are
proud to be a part of this great cause".
The Project Director, Kennedy Effah explained the decision to take up
this project stemmed from a firm belief that physically challenged
persons deserve all the support they can get in order to live their
lives with dignity and make meaningful contributions to society.
Access Bank staff, every year, come up with various social
intervention programmes as their contribution to society for
sustainable impact to improve living conditions in the areas of
health, education as well as the arts.
Credit: Myjoyonline
