The Ghana Nuts Limited, an agro-processing company in Techiman in the Brong Ahafo Region, has presented a Mercedes Benz Sprinter 312D Ambulance  valued at 27,000 US dollars to the Chiraa Health Centre in the Sunyani West District.
 
The Deputy Managing Director of the Company, Mr Prince Obeng-Asante, said aside meeting its social responsibility to communities in the catchment area, the Company was motivated to donate the ambulance to facilitate and enhance the activities of the centre.
 
He said the Company was established to assist in rural wealth creation through the Youth in Agriculture Programme and requested the community to release 2000 acres of land to enable the youth to engage in groundnuts and soybean cultivation.
 
Mr Obeng-Asante said the Company was ready to buy the produce on the farm after pre- financing them through the provision of seedlings and farm implements.
 
He stressed that the community needed to generate its own wealth to empower the people financially and economically and that would be a reliable way of achieving such a feat.
 
Mr Obeng-Asante said the Company had paid for a comprehensive insurance cover on the ambulance and would also bear the driver’s salary for one year and advised against the use of the ambulance to convey corpses.
 
Mrs Dora Opoku, Medical Assistant in charge of the Centre, said the donation of the ambulance was timely and significant because of "Post Partum Hemorrhage," snake bites, accidents and severe anaemia cases that were mostly referred to the regional hospital in Sunyani.
 
Mr Opoku Danso, Chairman of the Centre’s Interim Management Committee (IMC), said the centre was opened as a health post in 1962 and upgraded to a Health Centre in 1968.
   
He called for an expansion of the centre into either a poly-clinic or hospital as it served a lot of communities including Ayigbe, Subriso number one and two, Bafokrom, Mankrango, Ahyiayemu and Buoku.
   
The IMC Chairman mentioned the location of a public toilet so close to the centre, re-wiring of the entire place and lack of a mechanized borehole and fencing as some of the problems
facing it.

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