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30 Apr 2014

Author:
Roger A, GhanaWeb

Goldfields supports Bompieso with clinic and nurses quarters [Ghana]

Gold Fields Ghana[‘s]…Damang Mine…has handed over a newly constructed clinic and nurses’ quarters…to the Ghana Health Service and the Bompieso Community…The construction of the facility follows a request made on the management of the Damang mine in 2011. The only clinic serving the community at the time was a-two- room derelict structure that also doubled as living quarters for…nurses. Gold Fields was requested to replace this… with a modern well equipped…health facility…The new Bompieso community clinic…boast[s]…a pharmacy, [12 bed]…ward and medical laboratory…out-patients’ hall, two consulting rooms and a delivery room…Gold Fields also provided…living quarters [to attract and maintain highly qualified professionals in the community]…At a…ceremony to hand the facilities over to the community, Mr. Alfred Baku, the executive vice president and head of West Africa, Gold Fields, noted that the company is committed to impacting the lives of the people living in the catchment area of its operations…