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Tamale, Ghana – A Principal Midwifery Officer in-charge of the Labour Ward at the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH), Hajia Zainab Yahaya, has implored corporate and charity organisations to emulate MTN Ghana’s corporate social responsibility effort.
According to her, for about 10 successive years, the telecommunication company had continued to present gift hampers to newly born babies and their mothers in the hospital.
“They are the only telecommunication network that constantly comes to TTH in every December to donate to mothers and their babies. This gesture is not small. It will take about one month for the items to finish before they (mothers) buy some for their babies.”
While commending MTN Ghana for their consistent support, Hajia Zainab appealed to other organisations to also come to their aid.
“I’ll encourage other companies and NGOs to also come and do something for our mothers. We need instruments, screens and mattresses in the labour ward. There are times in a single night shift we can deliver about 25 to 30 babies and when it happens like that some of the mothers and their babies lie on their cot sheet on the bare floor,” she told SavannahNewsOnline in an interview shortly after staff of MTN Ghana presented 15 hampers to mothers who delivered on Christmas day.
Annually, mothers who deliver on the night and dawn of Christmas are celebrated by staff of MTN Ghana. The CSR initiative the company started a decade ago intends to put smiles on the faces of mothers and their babies.
Ten hampers were also presented to mothers and their babies at the West Gonja Hospital in Damongo in the Northern Region on Saturday.
Madam Rejoice, a beneficiary of one of the hampers expressed gratitude to MTN Ghana for what they did for her and other mothers who delivered on Christmas day.
“As you can see all the mothers in the ward are smiling because of what MTN has done. I have been using MTN for almost 15 years now and I can say that it’s simply the best network wherever you go. I want to thank them for what they have done for all of us”, she said.
The world is currently going through a deadly pandemic and despite its negative impact on businesses and the economy of the world, MTN Branch Network Services Manager in-charge of the Northern Sector, Kwami Aseye, said “MTN Ghana is still making sure that it carries out its mission of brightening the lives of customers”.
He indicated that, in the Upper East and Upper West Regions, MTN Ghana also made presentations to mothers and their newly born babies at their respective regional hospitals.
By SavannahNewsOnline.Com/Philip Liebs
