A team of health professionals from the Palm Beach County (PBC) Chapter of the National Black Nurses Association (NBNA), Florida, USA, have arrived in Ghana.
The team is in town to complement government’s efforts in the provision and delivery of healthcare services to the people in the Tamale metropolis of the Northern Region.
The project is the initiative of the African Diaspora Network (AND) LLC, a Ghanaian business networking and consultancy firm in Florida, USA, in collaboration with Palm Beach County Black Nurses and the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly (TMA).
The initiative, which would be an annual or bi-annual volunteering medical mission to the metropolis, was borne out of an investment trip made by the Metropolitan Chief Executive of Tamale, Mr Iddrisu Musah.
At a media briefing in Accra recently, Co-Founder of the ADN LLC, Mr Abdul Samad Mukhtari, explained that the objective of the team is to provide healthcare delivery to the three hospitals in the Tamale metropolis and share knowledge and experiences with their Ghanaian counterparts.
He said the team would also meet the president of the Traditional Healers Association, Traditional Birth Attendants in the north as well as provide medical care to the inmates of the Tamale Orphanage Home.
Mr. Mukhtari said the ADN LLC main objective is to provide and promote business network opportunities for Ghanaian businesses both in Ghana and in the diaspora.
He said his outfit also promotes Ghana’s cultural heritage through travel and tour operations by bringing to Ghana Africans in the diaspora.
The NBNA was established in 1971 under the leadership of former Dean and Professor of Nursing at the School of Nursing, Tuskegee University, Alabama, USA, Dr Lauranne Sams, and was incorporated on September 2, 1972 in the state of Ohio, USA.
It is a non-profit organisation with its membership made up of African-American Nurses with expertise and specialised backgrounds in various professional health fields.
It has a representation of about 150,000 African-American registered nurses, licenced vocational/practical nurses, nursing students and retired nurses from the USA, Eastern Caribbean and Africa, with 92 chartered chapters, in 35 states.
