Victims of road accidents formed the majority of the 6,500 orthopaedic cases which were recorded in 2009 at the Orthopaedic Training Centre at Nsawam.
Sister Elizabeth Newman, a director of the centre, made that known when the Kaneshie Area Witness Movement of the Apostolic Church, Ghana interacted with the patients of the centre and presented food items to the inmates as part of its 75th anniversary celebration.
Sister Newman urged drivers to be extra careful on the roads, since accidents on the road resulted in many people losing their limbs.
She said the orthopaedic workshop, the mobile clinic and the children’s department had all been overwhelmed with work as a result of road accidents in the country.
Sister Newman urged corporate institutions, especially the mobile telephony companies, not to concentrate their social responsibility effort in the cities alone but to spread it to cover institutions such as the centre for the rehabilitation of the physically-challenged in the country.
She said the orthopaedic centre spent GH¢10,000 a year to operate the mobile clinic which toured the countryside to handle cases of birth deformities and road accident victims.
The Head Pastor of the Kaneshie branch of the Apostolic Church, Ghana, Pastor Andy Nortey, who presented the items, described the work of the centre as a great service to humanity and said without it many people would have been languishing with disability for the rest of their lives.
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