The
Caretaker of Nyohini Children’s Home, Madam Augustina Quinoo has raised serious
concern about the way and manner some organizations and other individual
philanthropists donate inferior and expired items to the Children at the Home.
According
to her, in as much as they rely mainly on their benevolence to survive, there
is still the need for all donors who support the orphanage to observe due
diligence to ascertain the validity or otherwise of any product or item they
intend to buy for the Home.
Speaking
in an interview with Fiila News Madam Quainoo bemoaned that on several
occasions, the supervisors at the Nyohini Children’s Home have detected that
goods supplied or donated to the children by some organizations and individuals
have either expired or nearing their expiry dates.
Meanwhile,
Melcom-Ghana, one of the leading shops in Ghana today donated some items to the
Nyohini Children’s Home, which were suspected to be nearing their expiry dates.
The
products include 50 cartons of Derby and Coffee Cola beverages. A critical
check by Fiila News team revealed that the products were almost becoming
unwholesome for human consumption.
Instead
of disposing the items, the Management of Melcom Tamale decided to donate them
to the imates at the Nyohini Children’s Home.
The
Northern Regional Director of the Food and Drugs Board Authority (FDA), Mr.
Sylvester Kyei tells Fiila News once the product is not expired completely, it
can be consumed.
However,
in a situation where the expiry date even elapses for a single day it becomes
unwholesome.
Meanwhile,
when Fiila News contacted management of Melcom-Ghana on the issue they declined
comment.
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