The Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department of the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua needs a facelift to be able to improve the delivery of quality healthcare to mothers and their newborn babies.
The hospital is a referral facility in the region hence the department one of the busiest in the hospital as hundreds of pregnant mothers frequent the wards for delivery and check-ups however the facility cannot accommodate many mothers and their newborn children while medical equipment is obsolete and wearing out.
“So our major problem is that we love a facelift, we will love that some person heart will be touched to come in and help us to lift the face of the department, change the bed especially the mattresses for our new mothers and their babies, we love baby cot to help the babies especially with the twin mothers just to make them comfortable and relaxed when they are on admission that’s our major problem,” Kathlyn Nyassingbe – Midwifery Officer also acting Deputy Matron at Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department of the hospital told Mybrytfmonline.com
Meanwhile, fifteen (15) babies were delivered on December 25th, at the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua.
Many of the deliveries were done through cesarean section due to medical complications that disabled vaginal delivery thus threatened the lives of the babies and their mothers.
“On the 25th of December, we had a total of 15 newborn babies being delivered out of which 11 are males and 4 females. It was more of a busy day on the 25th because there were a lot of surgeries than the normal deliveries. We anticipated that it will be a very smooth and quiet day for us but it wasn’t like what we normally experience ” Kathlyn Nyassingbe – Midwifery Officer also acting Deputy Matron at Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department of the ERHK explained.
He said this when MTN Ghana Foundation donated Christmas hampers to newly born babies on Christmas day.
“It is something we look out for every year because we know that every Christmas day they do this for us, they come to the aid of the newly born babies and their mothers. We very grateful this time around for their kind gesture” She said.
The MTN delegation made similar donations at St. Joseph and SDA Hospitals in Koforidua.
Mohammed Haruna Yamba -Eastern Regional Mobile Money Implementation Controller, MTN Ghana, said the exercise is annual corporate social responsibility held nationwide to appreciate mothers who deliver on Christmas day.
“We donated to our mothers who gave birth 25th December, and is part of our end of year package that we do and as part of our end of year social responsibilities to this our wonderful mothers and their newborn babies, we’ve been able to do this across the country within the ten regions where Eastern region is part of the ten regions in Ghana which we came to also donate. We were at the Central Hospital, we went to the St Joseph Hospital and we are here at the SDA Hospital too to also donate too”
“In all, we’ve been able to successfully donated 20 hampers to 20 newborn babies which is a very good thing to also give back to the community, this is being done to appreciate our customer’s loyalty to the business and also would like to thank the media for also supporting us cover this wonderful donation to the public and the Hospitals also for their assistance”.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
