Vodafone Healthline gave my daughter a new lease of life

Elizabeth Owusu, mother of 15 years old Millicent Osei Bonsu, from Kumasi in the Ashanti Region who was missing out on Senior High School (SHS) due to scoliosis, a curved spine condition, is grateful for the intervention of the award winning television programme, Healthline.

Millicent developed the medical condition at the age of 13 and had since been living with excruciating back pain which made it difficult for her to sit for long hours. Her mother, who is a trader at Kumasi Central Market, was very worried about how she would raise money for the surgery, and most importantly how Millicent was going to write her Basic Education Certification Examination (BECE).

Her mother tried to raise funds for the surgery and got GHC 5,000 through her church in Abrepoh, Kumasi. This was still woefully inadequate and could not cater for the full cost of surgery her daughter needed.

“I was particularly worried about her education when she developed the problem. She was always in so much pain and I was troubled about how she was going to learn and write her BECE. My daughter would not have been able to continue her education but for the support of Vodafone Healthline”.

One year on, Millicent is doing remarkably well. She had good grades at the BECE and is now in her second year at the Kumasi Girls High School, offering General Arts with the hope of becoming a nurse in future.

Millicent is one of the many lives that have been transformed by Vodafone Ghana’s multiple award winning programme, Healthline. It remains the most awarded Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme in Ghana and continues to empower Ghanaians on health related issues. The programme sponsors people in need of urgent surgical operations and also educates Ghanaians on various health issues.

Scoliosis, according medical experts is abnormal condition that develops in children during puberty.