By Rashid Mbugri, GNA
Tamale, April 25, GNA - Kokrokoo Charities Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organisation, under its 100 project, on Thursday donated two incubators worth $20,000 to the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) to help improve health care delivery for pre-term and premature babies.
It was also to help curb infant mortality associated with pre-term and premature births in the Tamale Metropolis.
The Kokrokoo Charities Foundation’ 100 project is aimed at purchasing and donating 100 incubators to hospitals across the country to reduce the high rate of infant mortality by the end of this year.
Mr Kwame Sefa-Kayi, Founder of the Kokrokoo Charities Foundation said the gesture was a way of supporting health facilities in their efforts in providing quality health care delivery in the country as a way of giving back to the society to put smiles on the faces of mothers and their babies.
He said "The motive for this is primarily to give back to the society, especially those who cannot afford incubators since lack of incubators is one of the challenges in the health facilities.”
Mr Sefa-Kayi, who is also a Broadcaster, said under the 100 project, the Foundation would be donating a total of 30 incubators to the various health facilities within the northern sector of the country.
He said the Foundation had already donated some incubators to the Upper West, and would be proceeding from the Northern Region to the Upper East region to donate some of the incubators to health facilities there.
He encouraged Management of the TTH to take good care of the incubators to help save lives of pre-term and premature babies.
Dr Alhassan Abdul Mumin, a Senior Paediatrician and Head of the Paediatric Centre at the TTH said last year the Newborn Intensive Care Unit of TTH recorded about 2,300 babies with about 30 per cent of the total number being pre-term babies with some weighing less than 2.5 kilogrammes.
Dr Mumin said most of those babies stayed in the hospital for more than 30 days and mostly paired in incubators due to their limited number and expressed gratitude to the Kokrokoo Charities Foundation for the support.
He appealed to other organisations to help provide more incubators to the TTH to improve health care delivery.
GNA
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