The Global Fund through the Ghana Health Service has donated a Toyota pick-up
vehicle to the Ghana Prisons Service.
The vehicle is part of logistical support to the Health Directorate of the Prisons Service to champion the control of HIV, tuberculosis, and epidemics in prisons.
Dr Ayisi Addo and Dr Adusi Poku, Directors of the National AIDS and Tuberculosis Control Programmes, made the presentation in Accra.
The Director of Prisons in charge of Health (DOP) Gloria Essandoh received the keys and documents of
the vehicle on behalf of the Service.
She assured donors that the Service would use the vehicle judiciously for AIDS and tuberculosis control operations.
Present at the presentation were the officer in charge of HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis Control Assistant Director of Prisons (ADP) Matilda Nyampong, Superintendent Sam Kofi Opoku, Deputy Superintendent of Prisons (DSP.) Stephen Aboagye and DSP. Kenneth Akama.
The rest were officials from Ghana Health Service and the National AIDS and Tuberculosis Control Programmes. DOP. Essandoh, later presented the keys of the new vehicle to the Deputy Director General of Prisons in charge of Finance and Administration (DDGP.) Patience Baffoe-Bonnie at the Prisons Headquarters.