MTN Ghana has presented specially packaged hampers for babies born on Christmas day at some selected hospitals in the country.
This initiative which began in 2011 has been sustained till date with about 3,500 hampers so far delivered to children born on Christmas day.
Speaking to journalists after distributing hampers to twenty -two babies born on Christmas day at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Mrs Charity Darko, Corporate Services Advisor at MTN Northern Business District said thirty hospitals had been selected for the nationwide deliveries.
She mentioned that 260 hampers which contained detergents, diapers, toys, babies’ clothes as well as light toiletries were being delivered to babies born on Christmas day.
Mrs Darko, indicated that as part of MTN’s corporate social responsibilities the company makes donation to babies born on Christmas day and this year MTN is distributing six hundred hampers in 30 hospitals across Ghana on the occasion of Christmas Day.
She disclosed that this year’s number of hampers distributed is hundred higher than what MTN did last year with the primary objective of putting smiles on the faces of mothers who gave birth on Christmas day.
Nursing Manager at the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department at KATH, Madam Gifty Serwaah Adu, thanked MTN officials for the donation.
She disclosed that the 22 babies born on 25th and 26th December at KATH were delivered normally with no casualties.
Madam Adu however asked for support for mothers at the maternity wards, adding that many struggle to pay bills after delivering their babies.
She further appealed to other corporate organisations to visit the maternity wards and help mothers pay for their care and deliveries since a lot of them are unable to pay their bills just as MTN Ghana has since 2011 shown the way.
