By Prince Acquah, GNA
Cape Coast, Dec 27, GNA – Telecommunications Giant, MTN Ghana, has welcomed 25 babies born on Christmas day at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH) with hampers of assorted baby products, sharing the joy of the season with the mothers and their newborns.
The annual gesture, rooted in the birth of Christ, brought boundless bliss to the mothers who grinned from ear to ear in excitement and gratitude.
Madam Regina Arkaifie, the Manager of Human Resources for the Western and Central Regions, sharing the essence of the donation, emphasised love sharing and touted the impact of the initiative over the years.
“The hampers contain baby products such as diapers, baby oil, pomade, and everything that is needed to take care of a newborn baby. Over the years that we have done this, there has been immense impact and excitement among the mothers,” she said.
“We are grateful that MTN as a business. We are also contributing our quota to communities that we work in to impact lives and to welcome these babies,” she added.
Madam Arkaifie assured that MTN Ghana would intensify investments in their Corporate Social Responsibility in their core areas of education, economic empowerment, and health in the coming year.
Touching on customer experience, she said MTN would enhance all services with special attention on data services.
“We are focusing on fibre-to-home next year. We will ensure that all communities are hooked on to the fibre-to-home product to enhance data services,” she assured.
Madam Veronica Koomson, a Deputy Chief Nursing Officer at CCTH, thanked MTN for their consistency in supporting mothers and babies on Christmas day.
She observed that most mothers in labour often went to the hospital with nothing at all, putting the burden on the nurses to cater for them from the their pockets.
“This package will go a very long way to help them because there is almost everything in it,” she said.
Madam Salamatu Nuhu, a mother of a baby girl, was hopeful that the items would offer her significant ease in the early days, with Madam Vida Obosu describing the gesture as a “Christmas blessing.”
Madam Gifty Efua Aggrey, a senior staff midwife, lamented the lack of adequate working equipment at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department including BP apparatus and machines and appealed for support to ease their burden.
GNA
Edited by Alice Tettey/Christian Akorlie