KATH receives ventilators
A team of researchers from the Global Health and Infectious Disease and the Kumasi Collaborative Centre for Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) have donated two ventilators worth $30,000 and 13 boxes of hospital consumables to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi.
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The consumables were to aid the Emergency Medicine Unit of the hospital in providing care to patients who thronged the facility in critical conditions.
Presentation
Presenting the items to the management of KATH, the leader of the team, Dr John A. Amuasi, said the team was part of the Anti-Cov Project that conducted research into the COVID-19 pandemic on the African continent, with Ghana serving as the focal point.
He said during the study, KATH was one of the facilities that were used for the project, and it provided the largest number of participants in the whole of Africa.
Prof. Amuasi said the ventilators were part of the equipment provided for the research but were not used.
Consequently, he said, the team decided to donate them to KATH, where they would be put to good use to save lives.
“The study is over and we have begun the analysis of the findings and the good thing is that we had over 200 patients from KATH who benefitted from the studies, which was the highest in all the countries the study was conducted”.
Research
He was glad to state that the research project contributed to additional investigation on how the body responded naturally to the COVID-19 disease, and it had been quite successful.
He said it was a great opportunity for the team to work in Ghana, especially at KATH, and was hopeful the ventilators would be beneficial to the patients at the Emergency Medicine Unit.
The Chief Executive Officer of KATH, Prof. Otchere Addai-Mensah, was grateful to the team for the donation, which he said would help the hospital in making some savings for acquiring some of the essential equipment needed at the health facility.
He called for more such research collaborations to deepen the existing relationships and promote more research projects.
Benefit
The Head of the Emergency Medicine Unit, KATH, Dr Chris Oppong, expressed his gratitude to the team for the donation, describing it as timely since the Unit needed them to care for patients.
The Group Lead of the KATH team, Dr Joseph Bonney, an Emergency Medicine Specialist at KATH, who is also a member of the Anti-Cov Project, described the research as very successful.
He said the research looked at the immunological response to COVID-19 and the Epidemiological study which recorded 160 and 274 participants respectively.
