Alhaji Adamu Iddrisu and the Tema Mantse, Nii Adjei Kraku, cutting the tape for opening of the water treatment plant
TRUSTEE OF the Royal Bank (TRB) Foundation, a wholly-owned Ghanaian financial institution, has constructed a water treatment facility to save equipment of the Tema General Hospital from corrosion.
The plant which was constructed at a cost of GH¢61, 400 is to purify water supply from the borehole built by the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI).
It would also help the only referral hospital in the Tema Metropolis to save an amount of over GH¢12, 000 every month, as more than half of the facility would be supplied with 1,000 gallons of water every hour with the aid of the treatment plant.
Handing over the treatment plant to the health facility, Dr Kwaku K. Sarpong, board chairman of the Royal Bank, entreated the management of the health facility to cultivate good maintenance culture in order to help prolong its efficiency.
“Investment without maintenance is no investment because it takes little amount of money to maintain an investment. The amount invested into the foundation could have built five boreholes. We have denied other people of boreholes to provide the treatment facility here to save lives,” he implored.
Dr Sarpong expressed gladness that the company has steadily grown to become one of the leading financial institutions in the business market.
He added that the TRB Foundation has also installed boreholes in some part of the Eastern and Volta regions to help people get access to potable water.
For his part, Dr Kwabena Opoku Adusei, medical director of the Tema General Hospital, thanked the management and staff of the Royal Bank for their kind gesture.
From Vincent Kubi, Tema