Kumasi, July, 27 GNA – Dr Mrs Bernice Darko Adu-Gyamfi, a Ghanaian-born doctor resident in Houston, Texas in the United States of America (USA), has presented medical consumables valued at thousands of dollars to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (ICU), of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), in Kumasi.
The items, a donation from the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic in Houston in Texas where she works, are to aid optimum health care delivery at the Unit, where children needing emergency and critical care are admitted.
The donated stuff include; incubation sets, spinal needles, syringes, oxygen masks, Intravenous kits, oxygen peroxides and hand gloves.
Presenting the items, Dr Mrs Adu-Gyamfi said as a daughter of a midwife who saw her mother supervising the delivery of babies born by deprived mothers, she had since her childhood days been moved to always help to make life a bit better for such children.
“The gesture is just a means of showing my love of concern by way of helping to improve care and put smiles on the faces of the sick children and their parents” she said.
Mrs Angelina Opoku-Adusei, Principal Nursing Officer in charge of the Unit, receiving the items on behalf of the Unit, thanked the donors and assured that they would be used for the intended purpose.
She however enumerated some of the nagging challenges facing the unit; as inadequate space and the inability of the children’s parents to settle their medical bills.
She said the Unit was just one room which could admit only four children at a time, compelling doctors to attend to the sick children at the reception or on the corridors, a situation not very conducive for good health care delivery.
Mrs Opoku-Adusei expressed the hope that the new Mother and Baby Unit (MBU), being constructed at the Hospital, would be completed in record time with a more appropriate space being allocated to the Unit.
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