Family donates therapy machines to 2 health facilities
A family at Pramso in the Ashanti Region has presented two new photo therapy machines to two health institutions in the Greater Accra and Ashanti regions.
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The beneficiary institutions are the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra and the Saint Michael’s Hospital at Pramso.
The photo therapy machines, valued at $2000 each, is used in the treatment of jaundice in newborn babies.
Urgent treatment
At a short ceremony at Pramso yesterday, a former Minister of Energy, Dr Joe Oteng Adjei, whose family donated the therapy machines, said the donation was in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the death of his father, the late Opanin Kwabena Agyei, a former blacksmith from Pramso in the Bosomtwe District in the Ashanti Region.
He explained that the family wanted to assist the hospitals to save the lives of many newborn babies with the condition, adding that the urgency with which patients needed treatment prompted the family to donate the machines.
The former minister and the family urged the management of the hospital to take good care of the machines to serve the purpose for which they were provided.
The acting Medical Director of the Saint Michael’s Hospital, Dr Samuel Yaw Adu, who received the machine on behalf of the hospital, commended the family for the gesture and said it was very crucial for saving the lives of newborn babies with jaundice.