STANCHART SUPPORTS EYE CINICS IN WR (BACK PAGE)

Standard Chartered Bank has provided new ophthalmology equipment, motorbikes and other medical items worth $150,000 for eye clinic projects in the Western Region.
The projects include the construction, rehabilitation and provision of equipment to satellite eye clinics in the region.
The focus of the project is to make eye care services accessible to people in the remotest parts of the region and also to ensure the training of health personnel in the region, which has only two ophthalmologists and 14 nurses.
It is being executed under the bank’s, “Seeing is Believing” programme, in partnership with Operation Eyesight Universal and the Ministry of Health (MoH), to provide referral eye care service centres to more than 300,000 people in the region.
The bank’s Head of Corporate Affairs in charge of West Africa, Nii Okai Nunoo, said it was important to focus on the avoidable causes of blindness by giving support to people who really needed such care.
The bank’s Chief Executive Officer for Ghana and Area General Manager for West and Central Africa, Mr Hemen Shah, said the bank was committed to its social responsibilities.
He said Stanchart was also committed to environmental protection, economic development and good governance, which formed the foundation for ensuring sustainability of its business.
Mr Shah said “using the bank’s core skills, service and talents, we want to make a positive contribution to society by building sustainable business strategy in response to the world’s changing needs”.
He said in the past, they had invested $500,000 in a similar project in the Eastern Region and it was now the turn of the Western Region to benefit.
The Regional Director of the Health Service, Dr Linda Van Otoo, who received the items, commended the bank for the support and said it was the focus of the health service to create wealth through health.
She said apart from the bank’s investment in eye care, the health authorities had also appealed to the bank to collaborate with them to improve on other areas of healthcare services.