Ms. Antoinette Atuah, Corporate Communications Manager, Vodafone Ghana, on Thursday said the company was committed to improving and addressing critical health needs of Ghanaians by empowering them with vital health information.
Briefing some members of staff of the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Accra on the company's corporate social responsibility, she stressed that its flagship programme, healthline, which airs on some major television networks was strategically designed as part of the company’s social responsibility to help address some major health needs in the country.
She said Vodafone Ghana valued the lives of Ghanaians and feeling concerned with some problems pertaining to the health sector, it decided to launch and introduce the premiership programme to court the assistance of the mass media to help it disseminate useful health information to the people.
Ms. Atuah explained that the flagship programme, which started last year, works by a production team which occasionally goes to the regional hospitals across the country and meet with the health administrators as well as a team of doctors, who identify a particular case that demands urgent attention for selection and treatment.
The Corporate Communications Manager said the company bears the cost of treatment of invalid patients, who in one way or the other cannot afford the treatment f special cases.
She said it was the company's desire to sensitise the people about what Vodafone Ghana was doing in the lives of people.
Mr. Mohammed Nurudeen, Head of the Home News Desk, appealed to the company to support the agency in the area of capacity building of personnel.