Being part of their social responsibilities and an annual act campaign by the company Bliss GVS Pharma Ltd has over the past three years made donations in support of health facilities in the country to enable them stock their medicine stores to aid in the timely service delivery to clients and to encourage the fight against malaria in Ghana.
The donation this year is expected to cover about Eight other major health facilities in the country. The previous years’ donations valued at GHC 20,000.00 covered about Six facilities.
Dr. Kwame Kumi Afuakwah – a pharmacist and a medical representative of Astorix Life Sciences, a subsidiary company of Bliss GVS Pharma Ltd said the initiative is an annual campaign to support major health facilities to help eradicate malaria in the country.
He disclosed that Bliss GVS Pharma Ltd has partnered with the government and the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana to help give solution to patience as and when the need arise to fight malaria
“Malaria has been a major challenge when we look at our regions, especially our African continent, and our country Ghana precisely, in doing these trying to make Ghana and Africa a malaria free content, we have partnered the government of Ghana and Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana to help give solutions to our patients as and when the need might come up to tackle and treat malaria in the country,” Dr. Kumi-Afuakwah stated.
Tagging malaria as a great challenge to Africa, Kwame Kumi Afuakwah, said “The situations and what the pictures at the moment seems to portray is that malaria is an uphill task that we are trying to combat, but rest assured that with Bliss GVS Pharma we will continually put in our best and give very good, quality, and moderate prices of anti malaria medicines to our country and Africa,” he assured.
He moved that Bliss GVS Pharma Ltd’s doors are opened to the government and NGOs to come together to form major strategic partners that can help make medicine especially anti malaria readily and always available for use across the country.
The Volta and Oti Regional Chairman of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana, Dr. Conrad Adjadeh, commended the government’s effort at procuring medicines for the country, he appealed to foreign donors to support the government’s efforts to ensure that drug procurement can be easily accessible for more medicine to be available at the facilities across the country
He advised the public to visit available community pharmacies for testing once they identify symptoms of malaria and that they should abstain from self prescriptions and medication.
Head Pharmacist at the internal medicines Sub BMC of the Ho Teaching Hospital, Wisdom Delali Adzaku, on behalf of the management of the facility commended the Bliss GVS Pharma LTD for their gesture.
He disclosed that records from their Out Patient Department (OPD) and In – Patients show that Malaria continue to feature prominently as one of the top Ten disease conditions which greatly affects children under five years, and if not treated appropriately may cause deaths of children.
He emphasized the need for testing and sleeping in mosquito free environments as ways of preventing the acquisitions and spread of the disease.
By Evans Attah Akangla, Ho
