Harvest Chapel International celebrates with Pantang Hospital

By Julius Kofi Satsi, GNA   

Accra, April 4, GNA - The Ashiyie branch of the Harvest Chapel International over the weekend donated items worth thousands of cedis to the ward 11 of the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital as part of its five years anniversary celebrations.

The five years anniversary celebration, which was on the theme: “Celebrating God’s faithfulness: A time to soar higher” saw some members of the church thronging the facility to present some assorted items to the inmates.

The items included bags of sachet water, liquid soap, rubber buckets, toiletries and gallons of antiseptics and food for their upkeep and the facilitation of the activities of the officials in the facility.

In an interaction with the Ghana News Agency, Pastor Mark Ofori-Kwafo, the Pastor in charge of the Harvest Chapel International, Praise Chapel-Ashiyie said the church decided to share with a group that needed support in society and chose the Pantang Hospital, ‘ward 11’ patients.  

Pastor Ofori-Kwafo said the donation also formed part of the beginning of the better things the church had intended to do in the Pantang Hospital, as that was their first visit to the facility.

“We even intend to adopt a ward and when it is time, we will come and sort them out and help to establish,” the man of God said.

Pastor Ofori-Kwafo said: “We believe that the patients are people that are part of us and God loves everybody because there is no discrimination when you come to God. He loves the rich; He loves the poor, the privileged and the less-privileged”

He said the Church saw the gesture as a way of reminding patients that whatever their state was, God still loved them and that the condition they were in was not forever but for a moment.

“The bible says there are times and seasons: seasons to be sorrowful and seasons to be joyful,” he said adding that when such a gesture was shown to them, they would be assured that they would be out of their condition soon. 

The Pastor said the contribution for the items presented to the female ward with 30 patients was mainly from members’ contribution in support of the fifth anniversary activities.

He called on other organisations and institutions to do something to help the psychiatric hospitals in Ghana adding, “I believe if each one of us can adopt a ward, it will bring a significant change in this environment.”

He described mental health situation in the country as ‘appalling’ and therefore called on authorities to develop a system of harmonising the delivery of mental health care. 

Receiving the items on behalf of the hospital, Ms Radar Kumar, a nurse at the facility commended the church saying the items came on time as the inmates needed them urgently.  

GNA 

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