World Vision Ghana with funding from Kia Motors Worldwide has presented Personal Protective Equipments (PPE’s) valued at ₵134,000 to the KIA Green Light Health Center at Akyem-Saaman in the Fanteakwa South district of the Eastern region. 

This gesture is to support Ghana Health Service in the fight against the spread of Covid-19 which has claimed many lives across the world.

The Fanteakwa area has recorded five positive case out of which four are health workers who got infected in the line of duty.

The items include 150 pieces of coverall, 603 pieces of detergents, 300 pieces of face shield, 25 pieces of gun thermometers, 80 pieces of face masks among other items.

Southern Operation Manager, Joshua Baidoo the presented the items on behalf of Dickens Thunde, Country Director for World Vision.

The Operations Manager said the support to the health directorate is coming at a time when the country’s positive cases keeps going up. 

According to him, the gesture is also to support government’s limited resources to check the spread of the novel virus.

Receiving the PPE’s, the deputy regional health director in charge of administration Peter Boateng expressed gratitude to KIA motors and World Vision. 

He appealed to other NGO‘s to come support the directorate in its fight against the pandemic.