Kumasi Jackson College of Education, a private College of Education, has presented a cheque for GHC 20, 000.
00 to the Kumasi Centre
for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR).
The donation was to support the work and enhance
the research capacity of the only public medical laboratory in the northern
sector of the country, especially, in the face of the outbreak of novel
coronavirus, which continues to spread across the country.
Currently, the KCCR is the only centre in the
northern part of Ghana testing blood samples of suspected COVID-19 cases.
The Ashanti Regional Health Directorate has so
far collected 13,199 blood samples for testing at the centre as part of its
enhanced surveillance and contact-tracing exercise and 59 have already tested
positive to the respiratory disease.
Mrs Theodosia Jackson, Principal of the college
who presented the cheque, said the contribution of KCCR in the fight against
COVID-19 must be appreciated by all Ghanaians.
She said mass testing of suspected cases
undertaken by the centre was critical to the containment of the flu-like virus.
“It is for this reason that we are contributing
our widow’s mite to the critical service your outfit is providing to the
nation”, she stated.
She urged Ghanaians to stay home and observe all
the precautionary protocols to collectively win the fight against the disease.
The partial lockdown and other directives issued
by the President, according to her, were in the interest of the entire nation
and called for strict compliance to achieve the desired results.
Prof. Richard Philips, Director of the KCCR,
commended the college for its generosity and promised to use the funds
appropriately.
He called for more of such support to enable the
centre to meet the financial obligations that come with the overwhelming number
of testing done at the centre.
Source: Ghana News Agency