THE Minister of Information, Mrs Zita Okaikoi, and her two deputies, Messrs Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwah and James Agyenim Boateng, yesterday donated GH¢2,000 towards the medical expenses of a four-year-old girl, Amenuveve Morgan, who is suffering from tumour of the jaw.
Mrs Okaikoi said she and her colleagues were touched by the story in the Daily Graphic and a letter she received from the girl’s father seeking assistance from the ministry.
The ministers made the donation during a visit to the girl, who is on admission at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.
During the visit, the ministers interacted with the patients, mostly children at the surgical ward, and assured them of the government’s assistance.
Mrs Okaikoi appealed to the general public, corporate entities and non-governmental organisations to come to the aid of the little girl and other patients at the surgical block of the hospital.
A surgeon of the hospital, Dr Kofi Wepeba, said the operation would go through several stages, and that the girl needed support from the entire public.
Another surgeon, Dr Patrick Bankah, said patients at the ward needed to pay their own bills because the National Health Insurance Scheme did not cover some surgical cases.
The Chief Executive Director of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Prof. Nii Otu Nartey, thanked the Ministry of Information for the gesture and appealed for more funds for the hospital.
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