HEAL THE WORLD

For most of us like you and I, we were privileged to be born with silver spoons in our mouths. For others who are classified as the bourgeoisies’ and the middle class in society, their parents made sure their children never lacked anything in society. Material needs were not a bother, educational needs were provided and above all they were given the best of health care, even if it meant being flown overseas for the medical care. But what happens to those in the rural areas, the less privileged, the people who find themselves among the lower class in society. Who provides for their material, educational and health needs? Like they say, unfortunate things mostly happen to people who can not afford it. Such is the situation we find in the Neuro Surgical Unit of the Korle – Bu Teaching Hospital.

The Neuro surgical unit of the Korle bu teaching hospital was established as the department which deals with issues  pertaining to the brain. Here you find many children below the ages of five years suffering from various predicaments pertaining to the brain. Some of these children due to the pains associated with their conditions are unable to eat, sit, stand, swallow, pass urine or even lie on their backs. Many of these children patiently wait on philanthropists, churches, individuals and organizations to determine their survival, but should this be so. For most of these babies who where born with these predicaments through  no faults of theirs are at times banished  with their mothers, thrown  into the sea  or sacrificed  to  gods as  the relatives believe  they are a bad omen to  the family and the community in which they born into.  For little children like baby Anim and Florence, their stories were no different from the other children at the neuro surgical unit of the Korle bu teaching hospital. The mother of little Frederica, a four year old girl born with a swollen head  also has the same story.

 Her story as well as the stories of others you and I hear almost everyday on various network and others surely sent shivers down your spine. In your own small way how are you contributing to help to put a smile on the faces of these small ones, to give them life and hope for a better future.  Like the lyrics in the late Michael Jackson’s song “heal the world” there is a place in your heart and I know that it is love………………and this place could be much brighter than tomorrow.  And in her quest to heal the world a philanthropist who was touched by Frederica’s plight paid for the operation.

As the old adage goes “life is not fair” hence the things we are privileged to have as individuals are not only for our benefit, but to bless the lives of the less fortunate in our hospitals. We advise as we appeal to your consciences to let us heal the world and make it a better place for you, for me, these little ones and the entire human race.