The Ghana Insurers Association (GIA) on Wednesday donated hospital consumables worth GH¢100,000 to the Trauma and Specialist Hospital, Winneba to help cater Accident victims sent to the hospital.
The items included absorbent gauze rolls, dissolvable syringes, and latex surgical gloves.
The gesture forms part of the insurance trade body’s corporate social responsibility of supporting victims of road crashes.
As part of donation, the Executives of the GIA and representatives of insurance companies were taken on a tour of the facility in order to apprise themselves of the various units and operations of the hospital.
The event was part of activities lined up to mark the Insurance Awareness Month celebration.
Speaking at the event, the President of the GIA, Mr Seth Kobla Aklasi stated that the rationale behind the donation was to support accident victims on the Winneba-Cape Coast Highway.
“The GIA’s magnanimous gesture, therefore, seeks to address the pressing needs of accident victims, many of whom are valued clients of insurance companies,” he stated.
Mr Aklasi said the insurance companies were concerned about accidents, which sadly remained a worrying trend, stressing that “The Winneba-Cape Coast road has emerged as an accident-prone stretch, prompting the GIA to step up and help proactively address this pressing concern.”
“By insuring individuals, we are actually taking responsibility for accidents which are a daily occurrence. Whatever you do, there may be road crashes and we have come to identify the Winneba road as one that is road-crash prone. Donating to the Trauma and Specialist Hospital, Winneba, is our way of saying that in the whole process of insurance, we think that we need to support victims of road crashes,” he indicated.
Mr Aklasi said the items comprised an array of essential medical supplies vital for expedient medical attention to accident victims.
Receiving the items, the Head of the Winneba Trauma Hospital, Dr Prah George expressed gratitude to the GIA.
He called upon other corporate entities across the nation to emulate the gesture of GIA to help at ameliorate the predicament of road accident victims.
BY KINGSLEY ASARE
