SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY - THE TURN OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

With reference to an article posted by kwabkesseh on the topic " Social responsibility-Osei Kwame Despite", where he recounted the good deeds of a renowned philanthropist, Mr Osei Kwame Despite of Despite group of companies.

The Catholic Diocese of Sunyani has replicated their quest for providing health care to the neglected people of Ghana. The fact cannot be denied that Catholics are really living up to their Vision, Mission and Goal statements.

The Vision of the Catholic Health Service is to provide high quality healthcare in the most effective/efficient and innovative manner, specific to the needs of the communities they serve and at all times acknowledge the dignity of the patients.

Their Mission is also to continue the healing ministry of Christ in bringing healing to the greatest number of people in the provision of total quality health care through healers with good ethical and moral standards.

The Goal of the Catholic health service is to provide and sustain good quality healthcare for the poor, the neglected and marginalised in the society.

It is in view of the above that the Catholic Diocese of Sunyani is always ahead in providing healthcare to people in the hinterlands.

Badu is a town situated in the Tain District, a district carved out from the Wenchi Municipality in November 12, 2003.

According to statistics, Tain district has a population of 101,000 while Badu has a population of 9,600, according to the 2010 population census.

This district by statistics, is suppose to have twenty (20) CHPS Compounds, but can now boast of six (6). It is suppose to have ten (10) health centres, it has four(4), it needs four(4) polyclinics but have none. (Source: District Health Director, Tain District).

This therefore means that residents have to travel on foot, bicycles and motor bikes for miles to access healthcare.
Could you imagine how uncomfortable and serious it is for a pregnant woman who is in labour to be transported to the nearest health centre on a bicycle or better still on a motor bike?
All these coupled with other cases caused the Catholic church under the direction of His Lordship Most Rev. Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi to put up a clinic at Badu, the town with the largest population in the Tain district. So to the people of Badu and its environs, a clinic has been born.

The Bishop also donated a well furnished Ambulance to handle and transport referral cases.
Among the services to be provided include Out Patient Department services, Ante- natal services and Public Health Care.
This therefore means that employment opportunity has been created, and the risk of transporting patients and women in labour has also been curbed, hence maternal and infant mortality will also be reduced.

Brethren, if steemit is about looking at the community, then the Catholic Diocese of Sunyani is in line with this virtue.

It is therefore expedient to bring to the notice of all and sundry that a magnificent edifice has been built as a clinic for the Badu Community.

As a secretary to the planning committee and the Master of Ceremony for the inauguration, I say kudos and thumbs up to the Catholic Diocese of Sunyani.

To my dear steemians, if single handedly we cannot give back to the society, like the CEO of Despite group of companies, we can as a group. Social responsibility, the responsibility for all.