GE Water & Process Technologies, a unit of General Electric Co., joined its parent company in announcing the expansion of its five-year, $20 million African infrastructure and healthcare initiative. GE Water & Process Technologies is aiding the expanded effort by providing desperately needed water scarcity solutions to two hospitals in Ghana.
“Each year more than five million people die from waterborne diseases and in Ghana close to 70 percent of all illness is caused by waterborne contaminants,” says George Oliver, CEO, GE Water & Process Technologies. “By installing our water scarcity solutions, patients now have access to safe, clean water - a resource that is essential to all healthcare environments.”