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Romeo Bugyei (2nd right) and Dr. Lawrence Siriboe (2nd left) in a handshake to officially launch the donation platform. With them are Jojo Esua-Mensah (1st right), Charles Osei-Owusu (first left) and some members from Consolidated Bank Ghana

In a bid
to sustain funding support for patients with various heart conditions, the National
Cardiothoracic Centre, in collaboration with the Ghana Heart Foundation and support
from IT Consortium, has launched a crowd funding platform.

The
platform is to enable philanthropic organisations and individuals donate into a
regulated account in aid of heart care for patients, especially children and
the vulnerable who cannot afford treatment at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital
(KBTH) Cardio Centre.

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The Director
of the Cardio Centre, Dr. Lawrence Siriboe, who spoke at the launch of the
platform recently, disclosed the difficulty patients go through to foot medical
bills.

He said
children with cardiac-related issues without treatment often pass on by age
five just because their parents cannot afford the cost of treatment.

“One out
of a hundred 100 children born will have hole-in-heart condition and without
surgical intervention half of these children will die before age five,” he
said.

“There is no insurance system that supports
people with heart-related issues and even with the private insurance companies,
it is difficult for them. The National Health Insurance System does not apply
when it comes to heart surgeries and the Ghana Heart Foundation which helps
people undergo heart surgeries unfortunately, have fatigue in donations,” Dr.
Siriboe further indicated.

He was,
therefore, elated about the new platform which would help raise funds on a
sustainable basis for the care of patients at the centre.

The Chief
Business Development Officer of IT Consortium, Jojo Esua-Mensah, the brain
behind the creation of the platform, explained that the initiative is to help
save patients with heart-related deaths in Ghana.

Mr.
Esua-Mensah said the crowd funding idea came about during his stay at the
facility as a patient.

He said
after observing the difficulty some patients go through to raise funds, he
decided to seek funding support for the centre.

“I spoke
with Fintech Company if they could help build a donation platform as the
company’s corporate social responsibility to help raise funds to support the
kids with cardiac related issues.

The
company then went into talks with MTN Ghana and Consolidated Bank Ghana who
gladly came on board to help reach and ensure greater impact with the
initiative,” he revealed.

Mr. Esua-Mensah
donated an amount of GH
¢10,000 as seed money.

The Managing
Director of IT Consortium, Romeo Bugyei, stated that the platform makes
provision for Ghanaians to give towards the initiative with small or huge
amounts.

Anyone
can sign unto the platform by dialing *700*9# on MTN , select ‘Donate’, enter ‘Cardio’,
enter ‘Amount’, select ‘Frequency’, select ‘Duration’ (if weekly/monthly) and
authorise payment.

Romeo Bugyei (2nd right) and Dr. Lawrence Siriboe (2nd left) in a handshake to officially launch the donation platform.  With them are Jojo Esua-Mensah (1st right), Charles Osei-Owusu (first left) and some members from Consolidated Bank Ghana

By Nadia Nimako & Jamila Akweley Okertchiri

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