How First Sky Group spent GHC32M on Kidney transplants

The First Sky Group marked it 21st thanksgiving anniversary in a grandstyle as the CEO called for national prayer ahead of the polls in December for our general elections. Let us with resolute energies, firm effort, fortitude and purpose, preserve our collective peace, mindful that we are one people, one nation with a common destiny.

According to him, the umbrella of God is a manifestation that we are indeed one and nothing should divide us.

Speaking at the 21st anniversary of the First Sky Group, the CEO of the Group Mr Eric Seddy Kutortse stated that this plea to protect our collective future underscores the significance of the harmony and resilience in building a flourishing nation. And by God’s grace he pray that we will sail through 2024 peacefully to the admiration of the world.

The group is poised to create job opportunities through which we lead people to christ especially the youth. And also create wealth to support God’s kingdom business and men of God.

He observed that by so doing it will bring relief to humanity, the poor and needy and to ensure the well-being of his management, staff and families.

A joint working committee from the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital and First Sky Group has been working tirelessly to see to the take off and completion of the project by the end of 2025.

In 2023, First Sky Group fully sponsored kidney transplant executed primarily by a team of Ghanaian specialists, an exercise which was very successful. These were all done in Ghana by Ghanaian medical professionals.

” To date, our support for free dialysis for the more than 300 patients, since we took on that responsibility in 2016 is more than (GHC 32m) and we don’t intend to give up until the terminal solution which is the establishment of a kidney transplant centre is completed. Permit me at this point to stress an important observation on kidney disease care and management. Chronic kidney (CKD) advances through five stages of declining kidney function, with the fifth stage indicating the most severe failure. Patients with stage 5 CKD are also known as end stage kidney disease, and they require Kidney Replacement Therapy (KRT) to survive. KTR is delivered in three ways; haemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and kidney transplantation. End-stage renal disease is best treated with a kidney transplant” he lamented.

According to him, individuals with end-stage kidney disease in Ghana now have access to kidney transplantation as a treatment option. This surgery requires donor kidney, whether deceased or alive. Unfortunately, there is no recognised legislative support in Ghana for organ transplant programmes.

As a result, there is a requirement to create a legislative instrument that will support and encourage the establishment of a long-term transplant programme in Ghana.