MOTEC LIFE-UK | About Us

Motec Life-UK is based at the West Hertfordshire NHS Trust and is currently run by a Trustee committee of six members led by Mr Ofori-Atta, an Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Trust. Our organisation is guided by a constitution and is registered with the UK Charity Commission. Most of the members are volunteers from various hospitals in England and Wales and other volunteers are resident in Canada, Holland and Germany. We have co-ordinators in our target hospitals in Ghana. The co-ordinators at Akosombo are Dr John Nkrumah Mills (Medical Director) and Dr Emmanuel Agbemey, orthopaedic Surgeon. The link people at Koforidua are Rev. Father Johannes Torwoe (Hospital Administrator), Dr Ebenezer Akrofi Mante (Medical Director), and Dr. Wilfred Addo Larbi (Clinical Director). Dr S. K. Amuzu (Medical Director) of Nkawkaw Holy Family Hospital and Mr K. Amoateng (Hospital Administrator) at St Michael’s Hospital, Pramso are other key co-ordinators.

MOTEC LIFE stands for Movement of experts within One world, Training local health workforce, Transfer of Technology, and skills necessary for a better healthcare service, providing Education as Efficiently as possible, Counting on responsible Charitable health care delivery activities by members on a foundation of impeccable accountability. The goal is to protect and promote good Health / LIFE through a Leadership that is prepared to learn and share ideas, membership that is Industrious, Faithful and Economical.

Motec Working group, Hemel Hempstead December 2007
Dr S. K Amuzu of Nkawkaw Holy Family Hospital	Drs Agbemey (left) and Nkrumah Mills (in white) of VRA Hospital Akosombo
Mr Amoateng of Pramso	Koforidua local theatre staff

We seek advise from ‘a respectable consortium’ of experienced and accomplished patrons including Professor Lord David Alton of Liverpool and the House of Lords, Daasebere Professor Oti Boateng, the Paramount Chief of Koforidua New Juabeng State of Ghana, Mr Peter Dyson –spinal surgeon in West Hertfordshire and Mr Jonathan Beacon of the Elms Consulting Rooms, St Albans City. We enjoy legal guidance from Dr Kofi Amu-Darko (LLM) of Canada and Mrs Estelle Appiah of the Attorney General’s Office, Accra, Ghana.

Motec is non-profit making and sustains its programme through formal support from affiliated international organisations like the International Organisation for Migration (I.O.M.) - Migration for Development in Africa subdivision (MIDA) and fund raising activities. We are linked with the Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET - London) and are supported in principal by the World Heath Organisation (WHO). Motec Life-UK is keen to promote the idea of ‘one global world, one people’ through the encouragement of a multi-national and multi-cultural membership and participation in the improvement of health care services in the developing world like Ghana.

Members at present take annual leave to work in Africa. Some Trust Hospitals in the UK however, allow their staff members some professional leave to cover such working visits. THET in London is working closely with the UK Government to smoothen the foreign visiting arrangements by groups within NHS Trust Hospitals. We are negotiating the support of the Government of Ghana through The High Commission in London.

OBJECTIVES

A summary of Motec's objectives. (These are clearly set out in the constitution)

WORKING VISITS

Motec makes four working visits to Ghana every year. in January/February, April, June and October. Some visits may be purely educational or paired with direct health care delivery service. The programme of activities includes evening lectures and symposia in our target hospitals with the participation of medical, nursing and para-medical personnel within our target hospitals in Ghana. We also attract and encourage neighbouring hospital involvement in our working programmes in Ghana. The task is daunting but the motivation strong, firm and positive.

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