AGM Petroleum Ghana Limited is a petroleum company that operates in Ghana. AGM has entered into partnership with Operation Hernia to help improve the health of Ghanaians. This giving back project is delivered through their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme that is delivered through Operation Hernia, with the aim to improve the access of Ghanaians to treatment of their hernias.

 

The CSR was started in 2019. It comprises the following programmes:-

1. Service Provision: An intensive programme to treat large numbers of patients with hernias. The treatment is provided free at the point of delivery. The service is provided through Hernia missions organised by Operation Hernia through dedicated and passionate volunteers from the UK, Europe and the US. The Volunteers fund their trip to Ghana. Their transportation, Accommodation and subsistence are provided through the AGM CSR. The volunteers offer their services pro bono.

2. Training of Ghana Doctors: An intensive national training programme to train Ghanaian doctors in hernia surgery. The training programme is delivered in partnership with the Ghana Hernia Society in District Hospitals in the country.

AGM CSR Donates Hospital Equipment. As part of the CSR programme, AGM donated essential theatre equipment to Dixcove Hospital in the Western Region of Ghana. The equipment included:

1. New Theatre Table
2. New Ceiling Operating Lamp
3. New Diathermy machine

AGM CSR Funds Vital Hernia Training Programme: Operation Hernia has entered into a partnership with the Ghana Hernia Society to deliver the national hernia training programme. AGM provides generous funding for the training programme. This was supplemented in 2020 by funding from Operation Hernia.

IMPORTANCE OF THE HERNIA TRAINING PROGRAMME

The burden of hernias in Ghana is huge. The economic toll is not insignificant. The ability to work is affected in 80% of hernia sufferers. Access to treatment is limited by lack of appropriately trained surgeons and inadequate health facilities. That is why the Ghana Hernia Society has embarked on the national hernia training programme, to train more doctors in the district hospitals. This will result in an increase in the repair rate of hernias in Ghana.

Without funding from AGM CSR, the Training Courses cannot be successfully organised.