TechnipFMC Ghana donates medical supplies to COVID-19 centre
TechnipFMC Ghana Limited, a global leader in the energy industry, has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the Ga-East Municipal Hospital to support the fight against the spread of COVID-19.
The PPE donated include surgical and examination gloves, N95 Face Masks Surgical Face Masks, Disposable Gowns (Infectious Disease) Disposable Gowns (Surgical) and gallons of hand sanitize.
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At the handing over ceremony, the Development Manager of TechnipFMC, Dr Joseph Dankwah, said the donation was to their support frontline health workers, particularly, the doctors and nurses to work in a safer environment to save lives.
“Inasmuch as frontline workers are doing their jobs, they are also risking their lives and those of their families. We are doing our best to have similar donation to other hospitals like we did for the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital on 24th September 2020”, he said.
Dr Dankwah stressed that as the Greater Accra region records the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Ghana, the donation is needed to help curb the surge in the region.
“The hospital is a COVID-19 center and caters for the eastern part of the Greater Accra Region. For this reason, confirmed COVID-19 cases are referred to them by other hospitals in the region, and it has a high influx of active COVID-19 cases. Thus, we found it prudent to support them with medical supplies to enable them provide quality care to patients"
"They also have the capacity to identify hospitals in the district that are in need of medical supplies, and deliver to them to provide quality health care,” he added.
The Head of Administration at the hospital, Rev Samuel Obeng-Mensah, who received the items, said the gesture would go along way to enhance the work of the health personal.
He indicated that more effort needed to be put in place to contain the spread and rise COVID-19 cases, addinf that the hospital needed more PPEs to help them contain the situation.
Also present at the event were; Shaun Watson, Country Manager for Ghana and Michael Kuma, Managing Director and Abigail Mensah, Communications and Sustainability Manager.