The class of 2010 Executive MBA students of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) on Friday opened the newly refurbished surgical ward of the Ridge Hospital in Accra. The exercise forms part of the school’s expectation of all graduating students, encouraging every batch of graduating students to undertake a corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative as a way of giving back to the society that has created the environment to make their study possible. The student’s representative, Mr Aboidun Afinowi explained that the 2010 CEIBS graduates decided to undertake the project after their research for a laudable CSR project came up with the unpleasant state of the surgical ward of the Ridge Hospital. He said the initiative was also in memory of their departed colleague, the late Mr.David Kobina Foster-Forson Dr, Emmanuel Obeng Pori, the Medical Director of the Ridge Hospital explained that the surgical ward was one of the wards needing refurbishment for so many years and so he was very grateful to the students for their thoughtful gesture. The first phase of the project which took care of four out of the eight surgical wards of the hospital cost the students a tune of $5,200. Professor Kwaku Atuahene-Gima, the Executive Director of CEIBS Africa, applauded the students’ choice of CSR initiative and reminded them that the school enjoins each graduating class to make any CSR project they choose to embark on a lifelong project they must remain committed to, just us other graduating students of the school in China and elsewhere do. He said this is one of the precepts of the CEIBS that has made it possible for the school to be the only institution to have been able to rise to the top 20 universities only within a period of only 15 years. In an address, the President of the CEIBS, Professor Nueno Pedro noted that in the USA alone inefficiencies in hospitals cost the country about $100 billion. He commended the graduating students for their choice of CSR initiative. The project committee chairman, Mr. Keku Eshun assured the hospital officials that the initiative will not be a one off activity, but the 2010 graduating students will remain committed to supporting the Ridge Hospital to provide good health care in Ghana.