The General Overseer of Calvary Charismatic Center (CCC), Reverend Ransford Obeng, has marked his 65th birthday with a blood donation exercise.
He made a personal donation of blood to the KomfoAnokye Teaching Hospital Medicine and Transfusion Unit to herald the donation of pints of blood by Members of the church.
The CCC leader have for the past five years dedicated his birthday to organising blood donation exercises.
Rev Obeng urged the public to use the influences and opportunities they have to better the lives of others.
“When God blesses you, kindly use the influence you wield to do good to people, especially the needy and the sick”, the CCC leader intimated.
He appealed to Christians in Ghana to make themselves available to be counted in the upcoming national census.
The CCC leader noted that having the right data and the true population size of the country is important.
Rev. Obeng told the media after the blood donation exercise that census provides the opportunity for the Statistical Service to get accurate data of persons living in the country for planning purposes.
He stressed that, “It is important that as Christians we do all we can to support a worthy cause, such as the upcoming census which would be used for development purposes”.
Dr. Shirley Phyllis Owusu-Ofori, Head of KATH Transfusion Medicine Unit, said she was happy with the contribution of CCC to restocking the blood bank.
She noted that CCC has for the past 5 years contributed 383 pints of blood to the unit and stressed that every pint of blood has the potential of saving the lives of three people.
A member of the church, Dr Owusu-Ofori, urged private and individual organisations as well as churches to emulate the example of Rev Obeng and CCC by donating blood as well as organising outreaches for same at regular intervals to restock the blood bank.
” I am happy that my Pastor has for the past 5 years diligently donated blood and committed church members in doing same and despite Covid-19 concerns the church ensured the protocols were observed to get people donating voluntarily”, the KATH Transfusion Unit Head stated. E N D
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