INTRODUCTION
With the understanding that detention in whatever form is injurious to health, CCF has gone beyond the prisons. Through our Health Check Series, we have come to the aid of many Ghanaians who have been detained in hospitals because of their inability to settle their bills and solicited support for the many others who require surgery. We have also provided prosthetic hands and legs for many children whose parents have either neglected them or cannot afford medical care for them.
11 year old Kweku Ofori Nyarko is unable to mingle with his friends because a strange disease which is killing him slowly has caused his mouth to swell abnormally and his mother, Vida Nyarko, 53 is struggling to raise over Fifteen Thousand Ghana Cedis to enable him undergo surgery. The struggling widow said her son’s […]
28 year old Eric Amoah Obeng, risks being paralyzed as his spinal cord has been damaged after he slipped and fell. He has been struggling to raise Thirty Five Thousand Ghana Cedis to undergo emergency surgery. “After I have had my lunch with my friends and we were returning to our post, a message I […]
Lawrence Kedza is groaning in pain as he struggles to raise over Fifty Thousand Ghana Cedis (equivalent to 10,000 USD) to enable him undergo surgery in India to remove a cancerous boil in his cheek and neck after his efforts to get cured in Ghana failed. According to Lawrence’s mother, Patience Kedza, the door of […]
40 year old widow, Afia Asantewaa’s life is plagued with misery as her left hand was chopped off through a car crush whiles she was on her way to seek for a job in the city. “After my husband’s demise I traveled to the city to live with my sister and her husband to work […]
4 year old Joseph Appiah is battling for his life after swallowing a battery as his stranded father, Kwadwo Aboagye hassles to get him proper medical care. Little Joseph has had his throat and some of his digestive parts corroded due to the corrosive substances in the battery making it difficult for him to eat. […]
50 year old widow Lydia Lamptey has been grappling to get cure for her diabetic daughter, Emilia Bissah who has been battling the disease for two decades because of financial difficulties. In an interaction with crimecheckghana, madam Lamptey said Emelia’s ailment started with dyspepsia (running stomach) along with vomiting and was diagnosed to be symptoms […]
45 year old Bright Koomson is in grief as he struggles to fund the treatment of kidney disease which is slowly killing his 9 year old daughter, Blessing Koomson after his wife left him when the little girl was under a year old. When crimecheckghana spoke to Mr. Koomson, he revealed that Blessing got swollen […]
“After I had taken the passenger to his destination and taken my money, just about 100 kilometers from the passenger, a stick from nowhere smashed me in my face and I fell off my motorbike and collapsed. The person took my bike and all the money I had on me.” That is the dreadful story […]
Crime Check Foundation, CCF has received with grief the painful death of Bentum Philip Turkson after he struggled to survive an accident which got him bedridden him for Six years. Turkson who was in his mid-thirties was knocked down by a hit and run driver whiles he was on his way to work. He suffered […]
30 year old Daniel Ameyaw has threatened to commit suicide because his efforts to raise Twelve Thousand Ghana Cedis to enable him undergo surgery has been unsuccessful. Narrating to crimecheckghana, his predicament, the distressed young man said a boil sprouted in his teeth and made his gum swell. He said it eventually developed to affect […]
