Ghanaian Ambassador Ground for the $265, 000 Project
By: J. Baitermeayea Hilton II/
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The Ghanaian community and Descendants Union in Liberia has broken grounds for the construction of an eighteen bedroom clinic in the Logan Town Community on the Bushrod Island.
The clinic, according to insiders, costs $265, 000 covering the inclusion of laboratory facilities, doctors’ quarter and other medical equipments. Already, the President John Attah Mills has contributed US$190,000 towards the project, the Ghanaian Community and Descendants Union in Liberia, Sam Ashley told the NEW VISION. He along With Ghanaians Ambassador to Liberia, Kenneth Asare Bosompem, has broken grounds for the construction of the clinic.
Mr. Ashley confirmed that the clinic, when constructed, would include a laboratory, doctors’ quarter and other modern medical facilities. The Ghanaian Community President said for the past four years the Ghanaian community have been planning to construct a modern health facility as a way of helping Liberia’s Health Sector, following years of civil unrest in Liberia which has damaged the Health infrastructures and development of the country.
Mr. Ashley pointed out that the clinic project is also intended to assist residents of Logan town and its surrounding communities who were gravely affected during the 14 years of civil conflict. Ashley said due to the lack of Health facility and medical supplies in the community, residents were taken in wheel barrows to the only government hospital near the area, the Redemption to seek medical attention, in the event of serious health attacks.
On their way to the hospital in some instances, Ashley said the sick people died on the way or give up the ghost upon arrival. Mr. Ashley told this paper on Saturday during the ground breaking ceremony program that the clinic will help to reduce the many health problems and the number of sicknesses in the community and amongst the vast majority of people living on the Bushrod Island.
He furthered that the initiative will also cement the long standing brotherly relations between the two countries, indicating that when the clinic is completed it will serve both Liberians and Ghanaian.
Performing the ground breaking ceremony, the Ghanaian Ambassador Kenneth Assure Bosomed praised the Ghanaian community for clinic project. Ambassador Bosompem described the initiative as important to the health and survival of the people on the entire Bushrod Island region. The Ghanaian envoy also promised his financial and moral supports, saying he is committed to seeing the clinic project’s start and final completion before his turner can expire in Liberia. The Ambassador said further said the decision to construct a community clinic is an attestation that the residents have valued their health, adding that Health is wealth.
Ambassador Bosompem lauded President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for the level of friendship and cooperation subsisting between Liberia and Ghana, wishing that these friendly ties continue to flourish among peoples of the two countries.
Meanwhile, Ghanaian Ambassador Bosompem made a contribution of 500 USD towards the project and admonished residents of Logan town and its environs to work towards the completion and success of the clinic project.
Also speaking at the program was the commissioner of the Township of Garworlohn on the Bushrof Island in Monrovia, Madam Willametta Gooding Carlos, who commended the Ghanaian community in Liberia for the bold step taken to build a community clinic in the area. The Commission reasoned that the clinic would help to alleviate the many health problems that the people of Liberia are faced with in the country. She said the project is a good move by the visionary people of Ghana resident in Liberia, who have the dream of the construction such the clinic.
Commissioner Carlos also urged the residents of the areas to take great interest in supporting the project with all their little resources for the construction of the US$265,000 clinic.
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