MTN Ghana Procures Medical Supplies to Support Gov’t Fight Against COVID-19

CEO of MTN Ghana, Selorm Adadevoh

Accra, Ghana, April 6 2020//-The MTN Ghana Foundation is procuring medical supplies worth GHC 5million to support the Government of Ghana’s fight against COVID-19 pandemic.  

Based on MTN’s consultation with the Ministry of Health, the list of items to be provided include the following:

  • Virus Sampling kits – 10,000
  • N95 Masks – 10,000 boxes
  • Gloves – 10,000 boxes
  • PPEs (Overalls) 7,500
  • PCR Machines- 4 (to be used for testing)
  • RNA Extraction Kits – 3000
  • Infrared thermometers- 300
  • Disposable bedsheets – 3,000

Commenting on the Foundation’s support, the CEO of MTN Ghana, Selorm Adadevoh, said, “COVID-19 is, unquestionably, testing our society fortitude and we all have a role to play in helping the country to overcome this global challenge. From the onset, we made a commitment to provide the needed assistance to help the country, businesses and the entire society stay connected to their work and loved ones.

Our first support was in that direction. This second phase of commitment is to help us directly combat the disease and to help the medical team provide the needed care to Ghanaians.

We believe that we’re good together as a people especially in these times when we all have to pitch in to fight a pandemic. We are confident that together we will overcome this challenge”.

Mr Adadevoh said, “we are in difficult times and MTN continues to review its support to the country. We continue to monitor the global situation closely and we continue to urge our employees and customers to strictly adhere to the recommendations of the World Health Organisation and Ministry of Health/Ghana Health Service”.

The Board Chairman of the MTN Ghana Foundation Prof. Franklin Manu said, the MTN Ghana Foundation has been at the forefront of Corporate Social Investments in the country.

“We believe the situation at hand needs the intervention of all Ghanaians and we are very happy to approve this amount for the purchase of these much-needed medical suppliers”

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