The Bank of Ghana Ladies Association
(BoG Ladies) has donated medical equipment and accessories to the Volta
Regional Hospital, Hohoe to enhance quality health care delivery.
The items which include a new Mindray DC 30
Ultrasound Scanner, Bank of Ghana branded bedsheets, papers for printing, gels
and patient monitor, were donated in a short ceremony in Hohoe.
Speaking at the ceremony, the President of BoG
Ladies, Ms. Ivy Adjimah said, “The call on us for an ultrasound scan machine
was to us an emotional appeal and a life-saving necessity that required an
urgent provision, given the importance of the machine, especially its
assistance with diagnosis, and consequently, the existing clinical deficiency
due to its unavailability. Sincerely, I must confess that we are so much
delighted for being able to redeem our pledge by providing for the Municipal
Hospital a new Mindray DC 30 Ultrasound Scanner for its healthcare delivery
services. Beyond the machine being used for obstetrics and gynecological
ultrasound scan, it can also be used for Elastrography scan, and Doppler scan.
It can also be used to examine heart and nearby blood vessels.
“I am so much elated to also inform you that,
in addition to the ultrasound machine, we are also donating Patient Monitor
which measures, records, distribute, and displays biometric values such as
heart rates, SP02, blood pressure, temperature and more. It may interest you to
know that our ability of reaching out to another region within this country
brings us much satisfaction of what our charitable organization holds as one of
its visions. That is, extending the tentacles of our benevolent operations
beyond Greater Accra
Region”.
Ms. Adjimah called on the Management
of the Hospital to take good care of the items donated and exhibit a high level
of maintenance culture, so it could serve more people in and beyond the Region.
She expressed gratitude to the Governor and
Deputy Governors of the Bank of Ghana, as well as all the ladies who constitute
BoG Ladies for the joy and eagerness with which they received and approved of
the benevolent initiative and subsequently contributed their quota
cheerfully and bounteously towards the purchase of the items.
Mr. Victor Akakpo, the Volta Regional Manager
of the Bank of Ghana noted that, the donation from BoG Ladies was one of the
numerous interventions the Bank of Ghana had done in the Volta, Oti and other
regions of the country.
He said some CSRs of the Bank in the Hohoe
Municipality were the donation of equipment to the Eye Clinic of the Regional
Hospital, equipment to the Physiotherapy Unit of the Hospital and donation of
computer tables to the Hohoe Midwifery Training School.
Others include the construction of a 6-unit water closet for the Volta School
for the Deaf, construction of pavilion for Alavanyo Senior High Technical
School, repair of the old ambulance and the construction of 20 modern toilet
facilities at Gbi Bla, a suburb of Hohoe.
Mr. Akakpo said the scanner donated had an
“iclear spectacle reduction imaging technology” capable of reducing the image
speckle noise and had a clearer and shaper lesion contour which could give a
clear picture of soft tissues that do not show up well on x-ray
images.
He noted that the scanner was one of the
preferred imaging modalities for the diagnosis and monitoring of pregnant women
and their unborn babies that provides real-time imaging.
Mr. Akakpo said the Bank of Ghana was very
much concerned about the health of staff and the general public as a whole and
would be grateful if proper care and good maintenance culture was adopted to
keep the machine in a good working condition to help the Hospital
continue to deliver quality health care in the Municipality and beyond.
Mr. Charles Torkornoo, Head of Administration
of the Volta Regional Hospital, on behalf of the Medical Superintendent, said
the Hospital had done all it could to improve on maternal and child health
services in the Hospital.
He noted that looking at the number of
pregnant women that came to the facility from antenatal care (ANC) through to
delivery, there was the need to focus more on mothers and children since
children were the future leaders.
Mr. Torkornoo expressed gratitude to BoG
Ladies for the donation, adding that the Hospital acknowledged the tremendous
support the Bank of Ghana had given the Hospital over the years.
He said the machine had come at the right time
and would play a critical role in ensuring health care delivery especially when
the OPD attendance of the Hospital keeps increasing with the ANC attendance,
recording significant figures.
Mama Dzitri II, Vice President of the Hohoe
Municipal Council of Queens, said the donation came at the right time and said
this would ensure that women had quality healthcare while calling on management
of the Hospital to take good care of the items.
The President of BoG Ladies, Ms. Ivy Adjimah
was accompanied by Mrs. Josephine OforiTeiko, Secretary, Mrs. Audrey C. N. D.
Agyekum, Assistant Secretary, Mrs. Florence Afedu- Koomson, Assistant
Treasurer, Ms. Sarah Panford, Organizing Secretary and Mrs.
Alice Aboagye, Assistant Organizing Secretary.
Source:3news