Abirem Hospital receives support from 3 institutions
Three institutions have donated seven containers of medical equipment, supplies and consumables to the New Abirem Government Hospital.
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The items, valued at $112, 700, included an operating theatre machine, X-ray machine, delivery beds, ENT chairs, beds, mattresses, wheelchairs and examination tables.
The rest were rolling tools, digital mammography machines and workstation, as well as medical consumables.
Donors
The institutions are the Ntiamoah Foundation, an indigenous non-profit organisation, the Newmont Akyem Mine and US-based Ghana Hope Foundation.
Whereas the Ntiamoah Foundation and the Ghana Hope Foundation procured the items in the US, Newmont airlifted them from the United State of America to Abirem, bearing the cost of freight and custom duties.
Speaking at the handover ceremony at New Abirem last Friday, Mrs Mercy Quansah-Ansah, the Executive Director of the Ntiamoah Foundation, said the foundation was taking measures to equip more CHPS compounds in the district to take care of minor ailments to avoid pressure on the New Abirem Government Hospital.
She expressed gratitude to Newmont and the Ghana Hope Foundation for their collaboration, which had been of great benefit to both the hospital and the district.
More help
Dr John Neeld of the Ghana Hope Foundation, who flew from the US to Ghana purposely for the presentation, promised more assistance to the hospital.
The District Chief Executive for Birim North, Mr Paul Aboagye Dadzie, commended the donors for the support.
He commended the doctors and staff of the hospital for their commitment to duty and asked them to take proper care of the equipment.
Mr Frank Antwi of Newmont said the company had provided a lot of infrastructure for the hospital and also expanded water system in the district.
Backbone
Dr Alexander Osei-Bonsu, the Medical Superintendent of the hospital, who received the items, praised the gesture of the donors and promised that the items would be put to good use to save lives.
He was particularly grateful to Newmont, which he described as the hospital’s backbone as far as infrastructure development was concerned.
