The Freemasons donated specialized ultra-low freezer to Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research (KCCR) to store test samples for Covid-19.
The team had recently medical equipment comprising two specialized ultra-low freezers and 1,000 PCR test kits to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research.
The records of the first lodges on the Gold Coast indicate that the Torridzonian Lodge No. 621 was consecrated in 1810. In 1833, another lodge, Cape Coast Lodge No. 599 was constituted
Membership is open to all irrespective of ethnicity or social background.
The two testing centers have been facing challenges with screening kits and tools deficit, ensuing in a slowdown of Ghana’s screening capacities in the previous 7 days.
The new specialized ultra-very low freezer will complement materials because of to arrive in an issue of days to raise Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research (KCCR)’s testing and tracing capacities.
They donated the items yesterday.
Kuffour and Otumfour have publicly announced their membership for the group.
Membership is either by invitation only or free–will depending on the geographic region.
Some Christians are of the view that since the group is related to demonic activity during its birth the donation is not good.
Some also say they have a demonic relation with the outside world.
The group is made up of popular Ghanaians who occupy very key positions.
The District Grand Lodge of Ghana has presented medical equipment comprising two specialised ultra-low freezers and one thousand PCR test Kits to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research.
The equipment valued at about GHc 280,000 was presented by representatives of the District Grand Lodge of Ghana led by the District Grand Master, Isaac Owulaku Hood.
The equipment and test kits are meant to empower the research centre to help combat the dreaded coronavirus.
In a brief address, Right Worshipful Isaac Owulaku Hood explained, ‘the District Grand Lodge is part of a worldwide body of Freemasons who operate under the United Grand Lodge of England, the Premier Grand lodge.
This Ghana district was inaugurated 89 years ago and is made up of members from a cross-section of the Ghanaian Society.
The District, he explained, boasts of the oldest lodge in the country, Gold Coast Lodge, formed in 1863’.
“Seeing the threat that Covid-19 posed to our dear nation Ghana, Freemasons of the Ghana District set up a charity fund. Since the principal tenets of Freemasonry is charity, specifically aimed at supporting the Institute, which is at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19.”
For his part, the Director of the Institute, Prof Abraham Kwabena, who represented Noguchi with the head of Virology Prof William Kwabena Ampofo, expressed their gratitude to the District Grand Lodge of Ghana, explaining the PCR test kits “will go along way to boost testing for covid-19 and critically needed Ultra-Low Freezers will be used to store biological samples”.
He then stated that given the generosity of the Freemasons, the NMIMR would be happy to share the donation with its sister research organizations, the Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research (KCCR) as arrangements are on hand to deliver one ultra-low Freezer to KCCR.