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Breast Care International (BCI) in collaboration with Peace and Love Hospitals have received donation of quantities of Cardiovascular, antihypertensive, antidiabetic, antineoplastic, intravenous infusions and other drugs from National Cancer Coalition in partnership with AmeriCares to assist needy patients in Ghana. BCI and National Cancer Coalition in Raleigh, USA signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in July, 2009 with the goal to have essential medicines from the USA and Europe provided to Ghana, purposely for needy but poor patients. Two other organization ie Food for the Poor and Kresbsalliarz GMBH have also signed separate MOU with BCI and Peace and Love Hospitals. We wish to single out for mention, the wonderful collaboration among these four organizations that has culminated in the safe delivery to Ghana of the assorted drugs that are to be donated. In pursuance of the MOU, BCI and Peace and Love Hospitals pleased to present essential medicines to selected health facilities. The drugs have an average wholesale value in the United States of approximately $6.M (Six Million US Dollars). In compliance with the wish of the donors, BCI and Peace and Love Hospitals will distribute the attached list of medicines to be administered to needy patients receiving medical treatment at various health facilities within Ghana for free. BCI acknowledges the invaluable assistance of all individuals and institutions who in diverse ways ensured that the medicines were safely delivered in Ghana. It is anticipated that these donated drugs will be used to treat patients AT NO COST TO THEM. Finally, we advise that proper records on these drugs received and administered to needy patients by the beneficiary institutions would be kept to enable BCI furnish the donors with the required data on the management of the medicines in Ghana.