The Pediatric Society of Ghana, has honoured renowned broadcaster, Mr Kwami Sefa Kayi, for his contributions towards infant healthcare through his Kokrokoo Charities Foundation’s incubator project.
The Association presented a citation award to him in recognition of his commitment to saving preterm babies through his incubator donations to hospitals across the country.
The Association made the presentation during its 2025 Annual General and Scientific Meeting in Accra on the theme: “Universal Health Coverage: Bridging Gaps and Building Resilience in Child Healthcare Delivery across Ghana.”
The event, which brought health professionals in pediatric service together, rewarded members and non-members of the Association, including Professor Afua Hesse, a Pediatrician Surgeon, and Afia Amankwah Tamakloe, a radio journalist, for their various contributions toward child healthcare services and delivery.
Mr Sefa Kayi expressed his appreciation to the Association for acknowledging the Foundation’s work, saying, it had inspired them to do more to serve more preterm babies in Ghana.
He said the Foundation had, so far, provided 62 incubators to hospitals throughout the country and was hoping to reach its 100 donation target soon.
Mr Sefa Kayi said, his Foundation would also be constructing a 60-bed Mother’s Unit at the Ho Teaching Hospital in the Volta Region as part of the incubator initiative also known as “Project 100,” to serve as an abode for mothers and care givers whose babies are admitted to the facility due to ill health.
“We are also appealing to corporate organisations, private individuals and anybody who wants to support us to achieve these projects, to do so,” he added, while acknowledging all the individuals and sponsors who have been supporting his health initiatives.
Dr Hilda Boye, President of the Pediatric Society of Ghana, said the award was also to recognise the awardee for using his media platforms to promote issues of infant healthcare.
She said matters of child healthcare and welfare should be important to all, and urged the public to emulate the gesture of the awardee.
Dr Boye said the meeting brought together stakeholders to track Ghana’s progress in achieving universal health coverage ahead of the 2030 target of the SDGs.
“We are highlighting this issue of universal health coverage so that within the next five years, where the SDGs are expected to have been attained, we can expedite action to be able to achieve or improve the targets and the conditions of the children that we have within the country,” she added.
The Kokrokoo Charities Foundation is a social intervention initiative set up by Mr Sefa Kayi, presenter of Peace FM’s Kokrokoo Morning Show, and aimed at identifying and addressing critical social needs in Ghana and helping resolve emerging development challenges.
The Foundation’s Project 100, initiated in 2014, has saved many preterm babies through its donations of infant incubators to boost neonatal care across the country.
