Rotary club donates to Tamale Teaching Hospital
The Rotary Club of Tamale has donated medical equipment worth GH¢151,423.65 to the Maternity Ward of the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) to help improve maternal health.
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The equipment, procured through the support of the Rocky Mount VA Rotary Club of the United States of America (USA), included an Electro Cardiography (ECG) machine, 50 Central Lines, four air bubble mattresses, four Glucometer machines, 80 sets of Glucometer test strips a Video Laryngoscope and Drug Pefusers.
The rest were three Non-Invasion Blood Pressure (NIBP) monitors with its accessories, one Invasion Blood Pressure Monitor with accessories, 10 Blood Pressure Cuff, 10 ECG Paper roll, one fully automated haematology analyser and two start-up reagents.
Contribution to MDGs
The President of the Rotary Club of Tamale, Mr Alex Kpodo, who handed over the equipment to the management of the hospital at a brief ceremony held at the Maternity Ward on Friday, said it was their contribution towards achieving Millenium Development Goal 5 (MDG 5) to help reduce the high maternal mortality rate in the Northern Region.
He said the rotary club would support in the training of doctors and nurses on how to use the equipment as soon as they were installed and called on the hospital authorities to ensure that the equipment were used for their intended purpose.
Dr Prosper Akambong, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of TTH, who received the equipment, thanked the club for the support and stated that it would go a long way to improve healthcare delivery at the hospital.
He also appealed to the club to help the hospital with a water reservoir or a water tanker to help solve its occasional water shortage.
The leader of the Rocky Mount VA Rotary Club delegation, Mr Walter Hughes, commended the management and staff of the hospital for their hard work and efforts to help improve healthcare delivery and address maternal mortality.
Causes of maternal mortality
The Head of the Anaesthetic Department of the University for Development Studies (UDS) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMSH), Dr Thomas Anaba, a rotarian, said bleeding, hypertension and serious infections continued to be the three common killers of pregnant women at the hospital.
He said the Rotary Club of Tamale, therefore, wrote a proposal for support to equip and set up an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the hospital’s Maternity Ward to help attend to these critical cases that continued to claim the lives of pregnant women.
Dr Anaba added that the provision of the equipment and training of the health personnel on how to use them were the first phase of the project dubbed: "Operation MDG 5," launched by the Rotary Club of Tamale, and the second phase would be the provision of ventilators and blood analysers for the unit.
