The exercise which formed part of MTN Ghana’s Foundation’s project dubbed “Save a Life,” was part of efforts to restock the blood banks of the health facilities in the region, particularly the Regional Hospital in Bolgatanga, to help save lives and effectively respond to emergencies.
The exercise, held at the Bolgatanga Senior High School (Big Boss) and Zamse Senior High Technical School (Zamstec) in collaboration with the Upper East Regional Hospital Blood Bank collected 121 pints of blood at the end of the exercise.
Since 2011, the MTN Ghana Foundation had been holding blood donation exercises each year as part of efforts to restock blood banks of health facilities across the country, to help respond to respective needs of clients.
In a media interaction on the sidelines of the exercise, Mr Martin Yaw Kumobah, the Upper East Regional Territory Sales Controller, MTN Ghana, said company had prioritised health and wellbeing of its customers, and it was one of the key pillars of MTN Ghana Foundation.
He said as a way of showing love to mark Valentine’s Day each year, his outfit organised blood donations to help the health facilities to save lives and improve upon the quality of healthcare at the hospitals especially during emergencies.
“Health is one of the key pillars of MTN Foundation, so we take the health of our customers seriously”.
“And if you agree with me, each day in our hospitals there is a cry from the blood banks that people need to donate blood for accident victims, surgeries among others, so MTN is basically responding to this health need of our hospitals,” he said.
Mr Kumobah reiterated the commitment of MTN Ghana to continue the exercise and expand the scope to contribute to replenish the blood banks of the facilities across the country to improve health delivery.
“We believe that Valentine is the time to show love and for me the best love anybody can show another human being is to donate your blood to save another person’s life,” he added.
He commended all the stakeholders and the public for their support over the years and urged them to continue to support the initiative to continue to make significant impact.
Mr Kingsley Kwame Gamor, the Principal Laboratory Assistant, Upper East Regional Hospital Blood Bank, commended MTN Ghana for the initiative to support the hospital to respond appropriately to the need of clients.
He said each day there were emergencies cases reported at the health facilities and approximately each day the regional hospital required 14 pints of blood to respond to emergencies and encouraged the public to donate blood voluntarily to help save lives.
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