GAHTI Organises Clean-up, Donates To Pantang Mental Hospital

The Greater Accra zone of the Ghana Association of Health Training Institutions (GAHTI) has presented assorted items to support the inmates of the Pantang Mental Hospital.

Items donated included 2 bags of rice, 15 bags of sachet mineral water, packs of toothpaste, toilet rolls, detergents, secondhand clothes, shoes and bags amongst others.

According to Obed Asare Bediako, Gt. Accra Zonal President of the Ghana Association of Health Training Institutions (GAHTI), the donation forms part of activities to mark the association’s sixteen years anniversary.
The donation targeted 3 specific wards of the hospital which comprises of 11; a female ward and the other two which are 12 and 13 respectively male wards.

“It equally seeks to create awareness on GAHTI’s week celebration scheduled to take place in April, 16th -24th on the theme: “The role of health trainees in the prevention of breast cancer”, Pres. Obed Asare Bediako added.

The donation was made possible through personal contribution of members of the association who are students from various nursing and midwifery training intuitions in Accra and solely supported by Dr. Ezanetor Rawlings, NDC Parliamentary Aspirant for Korley Klottey Constituency.

The presentation of the items was done by Obed Asare Bediako on behalf of the association and received by Nelson Kwarko-Darboh, a nursing officer of Pantang Mental Hospital on behalf of the hospital.

He thanked GAHTI for the kind gesture, pledging the items will be utilized effectively for the intended purposes. He appealed to other benevolent organizations and individuals to emulate the gesture.
GAHTI members earlier before the donation conducted a clean-up exercise to get rid of filth thoroughly within and around the three specific wards earmarked as beneficiaries of GAHTI.

The occasion also witnessed the introduction of 21 beautiful ladies who will be vying for the face of GAHTI, a beauty queen pageant slated for April this year where one queen who stands the chance of winning will be crowned as the next face of GAHTI.

GAHTI expressed profound appreciation to Dr. Ezanetor Rawlings for the support calling on other philanthropic organizations, corporate entities and individuals emulate the gesture of Dr. Rawlings and support the association  towards a successful sixteen years anniversary celebration in April this year.

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