Climbing Ben Nevis to Support Future Inclusions Charity

To support our local charity partnership with Future Inclusions, three of our Techs: Mark Mayhew, Ashley Woodhead and Lee Baxter from John Banks Renault/Dacia Ipswich will be climbing Ben Nevis on 30th April 2023!

This is this first time the team have taken on a challenge like this, so hope to raise some funds to support this important charity. John Banks Group are supporting the team by providing a Dacia Jogger to travel in, plus clothing and gear. We hope you can support our team on this challenge, we will be posting regular updates, photos and videos of their travels and climb on our John Banks Group social channels:

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Read on to know more about our partnership with Future Inclusions: https://futureinclusions.org/

Future Inclusions Organisation, together with John Banks Group have joined together to fundraise to build a rural Community Clinic which will provide care to those most in need in Senchi, Ghana. Senchi lies in the Eastern Region of Ghana. It has a population of 104,194 and is approximately 187 km from Accra, Ghana.

This will be a provision which will be free at the point of delivery for people who cannot afford to pay for clinic or hospital services. This Clinic will serve as a specialist unit to reduce maternal deaths at child birth within the local area. We will also be raising funds to buy an ambulance to transport people from the clinic to hospital and 2 motor bikes to enable our nurses to provide care in the community.

Local overview of Senchi medical provision

1 hospital

1 Clinic supports the Senchi communities. This single clinic within the community uses National Health Insurance Cards for delivering treatment to patients.

The Need

There is one clinic in Senchi which caters for outpatient treatments. There is another one but people need to take a boat across the river before accessing treatment. Ghana operates a National Health Insurance card, which needs to be renewed yearly. However, the Insurance card doesn’t cover all the costs that the individual might have to pay for. Most people from Senchi experience very high unemployment rates, are very poor and illiterate, so sometimes they don’t know that the cards have expired nor do they have money to renew the card. When this happens, people do not renew their cards and use local pharmacies to purchase medication without any prior investigations being conducted.

Childbirth – Ghana like most African countries has a high maternal morbidity rate. Records of female mortality within the Senchi area is not well documented but anecdotal evidence from local traditional leaders and health practitioners suggests that young teenage and adult women are losing their lives needlessly. Women who cannot pay for hospital or clinic ante-natal care do not return to these services but rather use traditional birth attendants, who give them treatments that may or may not be acceptable to their needs and can lead to death.

The local drug store is often the only choice for people who are ill. These shops are used for consultation and drug dispensary. However, after not receiving the correct medical treatment, they go back to the clinics with worst cases than they started off with.

Local diseases – Malaria, diarrhoea, typhoid, coughs and cold and asthma.

When women die, families don’t complain and seek legal redress. This is a common occurrence within the local rural communities who can’t afford legal support.