Heart Surgery could be free if... --- Consultant Surgeon

Accra, March 4, GNA - Heart surgery could be free of charge in the
country if about a million Ghanaians donate 3,000 cedis every month
towards it, a Consultant at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital Cardio
Centre, has said.
Dr Lawrence Agyeman Sereboe, the Consultant Surgeon, said on Friday
that, "The Centre has envisaged that if only a million Ghanaians
decide to donate the cost of one mineral bottle a month to the Centre
it will be able to bear 100 per cent the cost of heart operations".
He said this when he received a cash donation of 20 million cedis
on behalf of the Centre from the Volta River Authority (VRA)
International Schools in the country.
Dr Sereboe said at present due to the kind donations by individuals
and corporate bodies to the Heart Foundation at the Centre, patients
pay just half the cost of heart surgery.
He said, "the heart is what holds human and when it fails there are
problems."Mrs Grace Manison Annancy, Director of VRA Schools, who
presented the cash together with some pupils said, "Being a Jubilee
year for Ghana, the various institutions decided to assist the Centre
by putting their financial mobilisation together".She noted that
donation to the Centre had been an annual "ritual" for the VRA schools
at Akosombo, Aboadze and Akuse.
04 Mar 07