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| Fr. Dzumador blessing a sick person |
Health workers have been
urged to accord respect and compassion to the sick who visit their health
facilities, and help them receive healing.
Very Rev. Fr. Paul
Dzumador, Chancellor of the Keta-Akatsi Diocese, made the appeal to health
professionals to uphold the dignity of the sick who access health care at their
facilities, during the Diocesan launch of the 25th World Day of the
Sick at Tagadzi-Dorfor, near Juapong.
“The dignity of the human
being is important” he stressed, urging Nurses, Doctors and all care givers to
treat the sick with respect and promote their welfare. He also entreated the
sick to respect the health givers.
Fr. Dzumador, noted that
health work is a vocation and not a profession, entreating them to work with a
good heart in serving the sick.
He expressed the need for
Christian medics to pray with the sick as part of the process of medication, and
charged them to be God fearing and render good services to the sick.
Mr. Christian Akoto-Brown,
Executive Director for Health in the Diocese, called on health workers to
appreciate the sick and pray for them.
He commended the entire
health workers of the six facilities in the Diocese as well as their
collaborators, and reminded them about the need to remember the sick and
suffering, who are at the centre of their work.
Mr. Akoto-Brown appealed
to health professionals to give off their best for the sick, noting that “nobody
invites sickness to himself or herself intentionally and nobody knows when they
would be taken ill”.
In spite of the
challenges they faced in their work, the Executive Secretary admitted that the
Lord has done a lot for them in the past year and urged them to continue having
faith and conviction in the Lord.
The institution of World
Day of the Sick by St. Pope John Paul, 25 years ago seeks to raise awareness of
the Christ’s healing ministry, care for the sick and focus on care-giving where
the sick would experience the warmth of God’s care and love.
Mr. Akoto-Brown,
entreated the health workers to observe the week-long celebration through home
visits to bed ridden patients and through provision of support to them.
Togbe Kakrada IV, Chief
of Tagadzi-Dorfor, in a remark thanked the Catholic Church for establishing the
facility at the area, and commended the Health Workers for the care, their sense
of urgency to duty and the dedication they attached to executing their task.
The Chief acknowledged
that due to the quality healthcare provision at the facility, a lot of people
were coming from far places to seek health care at the Polyclinic, and appealed
to the management and staff to keep up the good works.
In his address, Mr. Evans
Ativor, North Tongu District Director for Health, commended the Church for her
commitment in healthcare delivery, and assured that the District would continue
partnering with the Christian Health Association and do its best to complement
the growth of the Polyclinic.
He however called on
philanthropist and well-meaning Ghanaians to come to the aid of the Polyclinic,
which he said was in need of delivery equipment, medicines, wheelchairs and
medical consumables.
Fr. Dzumador, who officiated
the Mass to commemorate the day, read the Popes Message for the occasion on the
theme: Amazement of what God has
accomplished: The Almighty has done
great things for me (Luke 1:49).
He later led the Priests at
the function and some medics to visit and pray for the sick at the various
wards of the St. Anne’s Polyclinic.
Con-celebrants at the Mass
included, Rev. Frs. Ignatius Attipoe, Parish Priest of St. Francis of Assisi
Church at Juapong; Peter Amegashie, Chaplain at the Sacred Heart Hospital Abor;
Theodore Agbekudzi, Chaplain at the Comboni Hospital at Sogakope.
Others were Rev. Frs.
James Amuzu, and Franklin Adzaho, the Diocesan Bursar and Director of
Communications respectively.
Present at the occasion were staff of the Sacred Heart
Hospital at Abor; St. Anthony Hospital at Dodze; the Comboni Hospital at
Sogakope, and the Cuniberto Maternity Home at Lume.
The St. Francis of Assisi Parish Choir and the Alafa
Cultural troupe graced the occasion
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