By Pascal Kafu Abotsi
As part of activities to mark its 11th Anniversary and Thanksgiving, the Holy Trinity Spa and Health Farm at Sogakope in the Volta Region, has presented 52 wheelchairs and 50 white canes to physically-challenged persons within the municipality.
Seed capital of GH¢1,000 each was also presented to 20 identifiable mentally-challenged persons, who could neither drive nor operate machines, and convulsed without notice.
The Chairman of the Holy Trinity Spa and Health Farm, Dr. Felix Anyah, who presented the items, intimated that his outfit had the hallmark of comforting persons with any form of need, explaining that “this is, indeed, reflected in my name Gamesu, given to me at birth, meaning ‘time has come for people’s troubles to end’.”
According to him, as a health institution, they concerned themselves with being down to earth and open up to people, irrespective of their status in society, since it was their prayer for God “to purify us from all worldliness, pride, unforgiveness, and to always look for Him, the author and finisher of our faith, so as to be vessels of honour, sanctified, and meet for the masters use and prepared for every good work.”
A District Officer of the Department of Social Development, Mr. Moses Kakaw, led the search team to locate the people with disabilities, who were subsequently presented with the equipment at the premises of the health facility over the weekend.
In his short address, Mr. Kakaw said the gesture was symbolic of empathy for people who needed help the most, as he challenged other individuals, with the capacity, to follow suit. He agreed it was not an easy engagement, adding that “the Spa has filled the gap of government and the Sogakope Municipality.”
The District Officer cautioned the beneficiaries not to use the equipment to perpetrate crime and other needless activities, but instead, they should be assets which should assist them in their daily activities, and also enhance their living.
The beneficiaries could not hide their joy when they were called in turns to receive their gifts. They were full of appreciation for Holy Trinity Spa and Dr. Anyah for having thought of the need to give to the needy.
One of the beneficiaries, Mr. Jonathan Ocloo, a teacher of Mathematics at the Agorkpo Junior High School, disclosed to The Chronicle that Dr. Anyah had distinguished himself from highly-placed men in their society.
The father of two said, even though there were numerous wealthy men in the Sogakope Municipality, they were not ready to assist the needy, even when they were approached in tears. “They always looked down on people with disabilities. I want Ghanaians to know that there is ability in disability. For Dr. Anyah, God should continue to bless him,” he remarked.
Over the years, the Holy Trinity Spa and Health Farm at Sogakope has been able to build a welding shop for a former drunkard, rehabilitated by the health facility, train an ex-convict in plumbing, whose family is being taken care of, in addition to his monthly allowance of GH¢600, set up three complete shoe repairing mini-shops for physically challenged persons, and erected 14 street lights in the municipality.
It has also, among other things, donated several tricycles to unemployed youth in Sogakope, donated complete fishing nets, canoes, paddles and motors for fishermen, assisted financially to build the female cell of the Sogakope Police Station, donated sets of jerseys and footballs to schools in the municipality, and also constructed boreholes for some communities in the South Tongu District.
This year, the Holy Trinity Medical Centre received the Best Integrative Health Care Provider and Business Support Health Services awards. Dr. Felix Anyah was inducted into the Hall of Fame, Health and Medical Services by the Entrepreneurial Foundation of Ghana in the same year.
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