As many public hospitals and health facilities across the country call for retooling as well as general medical supplies, Gold Fields Ghana Foundation in a response has donated essential medical equipment and supplies worth US$793,491 to eleven public health facilities in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem and Prestea-Huni-Valley municipalities of the Western Region. Speaking to Channel One TV News at the handing over of the medical support in Tarkwa, the Executive Secretary of Gold Fields Ghana Foundation, Razak Abdel Yakubu, said the support includes Incubators, ICU beds, Anaesthetic Machines, Surgical instruments, Centrifuge, Nebulizers among others.
“There would be a time the gold would be exhorted. What legacy are we leaving behind as companies that came to mine here? The legacy Gold Fields has decided together with its host communities to leave behind is a legacy of good healthcare system. This means that we want to leave behind very good health facilities and a motivated health professional force. We also want to leave behind education on preventive health care, so that, in our absence, if anyone mentions Tarkwa-Nsuaem or Prestea-Huni-Valley, generations that are yet to come would say that it is the area you can go to for quality healthcare. This is a legacy we want to leave behind,” he said.
Razak Abdel Yakubu-Exec. Secretary, Gold Fields Gh. Foundation
Razak Abdel Yakubu further indicated that the presentation follows a comprehensive needs assessment conducted in 2024 in partnership with the Project C.U.R.E. which has the objective to improve quality primary healthcare through retooling, health promotion and reduction in pressure on key health facilities.
“As part of the Group Legacy Programme’s flagship initiative, Expanded Access to Quality Healthcare, the Gold Fields Ghana Foundation (GFGF) partnered with Project C.U.R.E., the world’s largest distributor of donated medical equipment and supplies to resource-limited countries. This initiative represents a significant step in strengthening the primary healthcare system, reducing the strain on frontline staff, and enabling a more effective referral pathway to secondary facilities such as the Apinto Government Hospital. Beyond equipment delivery, the programme has been complemented by community medical outreaches, through which 8,845 people were screened between 2023 and Q3 2025, and 2,889 individuals were newly enrolled or renewed under the National Health Insurance scheme (NH15). By combining outreach with NHIS enrolment, the programme ensures that more residents can access healthcare services affordably and sustainably, serving as a practical alternative to creating a separate community health insurance scheme”, he added.
The Prestea-Huni-Valley Municipal Health Director, Timothy Kobina Ofori, while thanking Gold Fields Ghana Foundation for the medical support on behalf of the beneficiary health facilities, described the items as truly essential to health service delivery in the area.
Timothy Ofori-Medical Director, Prestea-Huni-Valley Municipality
“These equip supplied have been very challenging to come by. When you look at the work that is done in the Municipality, thus mining and its related occupations, when we talk of injuries and the disease burden, they are classified under high burden impact, if it is diseases or injury. So, we need to get sophisticated equipment that would be able to detail whatever injury or burden on health that would affect the community. So, coming into the health facilities with these essential equipment and supplies, it is going to help us to handle any emergencies that would come with this burden of diseases or impact that might come as a result of the occupations that goes on here. It is the first time a beneficiary facility like Abosso Health facility is having this incubator. All our cases were referred to Tarkwa Municipal Hospital and now that we are going to have a theatre with incubator, it is going to help us to handle cases that might need the services of this equipment, so we are grateful to Gold Fields”, he said.
Beneficiary facilities were however urged to ensure good maintenance of the essential medical equipment donated to them.
Source:Lovinghananews.com
