Metropolitan Life Insurance Ghana Limited has renovated the recovery, male and labour wards of the Maamobi Polyclinic at a cost of GH¢30,000 as part of its corporate social responsibility.
Handing over the renovated wards to the management of the polyclinic, the Chief Executive Officer of the company, Mr Ahomka Lidsay, noted that “as a nation, our ability to develop will depend substantially on an energetic, strong and healthy workforce”.
"It is important for us all to recognise, however, that we will need more than an occasional demonstration of corporate social responsibility if we want to guarantee the health of the people of this country”, he explained.
He further stated: For children in particular, a good health facility is more important as they are delicate and failure to attend to their health needs could jeopardise their future.
“It is in the light of this that Metropolitan Life has committed itself to helping improve facilities at the Maamobi Polyclinic on a sustained basis, as our contribution to national efforts to raise the standard of health care delivery in the country", he added.
The Principal Medical Officer, Dr Mildred Kumassah, observed that as the clinic’s goal is to provide comprehensive quality health care services to clients, the company’s intervention was a timely one that would help it achieve that goal.
She cited that the major challenges of the clinic as inadequate and weak infrastructure and an ageing workforce, and added that although the Ghana Health service (GHS), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH) was trying to upgrade the facility to a District Hospital, it was being done at a snail's pace.
The Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr George Amofah, urged the staff to manage the facility well to enable it serve later generations.
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