Nine new babies were delivered at the Eastern Regional Hospital on Sunday, December 25,2022 .
Out of number, six(6) were delivered through Cesarean Sections.
The new Mothers who delivered these babies are very excited .
They say their family members have started calling the babies “Yesu” to wit Jesus.
Meanwhile ,MTN Ghana as part of its annual Yello Care initiative delivered expensive hampers targeted at the babies born on Christmas day at the Regional hospital.
The Yello Care team went to Koforidua SDA and St. Joseph Hospitals respectively to donate hampers to the new mothers and babies born on Christmas day.
Mohammed Haruna Yamba in charge of Mobile Money in the Eastern region said, a total of 25 hampers consisting of baby essentials were donated in Eastern region but in terms of nationwide, 500 hampers were distributed in 40 hospitals.
He urged the new mothers to take good care of the babies and take their education seriously to end quagmire of poverty in the society.
Meanwhile, Midwife in charge of the Neonatal Unit at the Eastern Regional Hospital, Joana Yorke Amoah commended MTN for the kind gesture towards the newborn mothers.
She however expressed worry that many fathers abandon the new mothers and babies at the hospital and refuse to pay their medical bills.
“With the financial aspect, their husbands don’t show up. They [men] just come and dump them here and then they leave them.We take their numbers and call them but they don’t respond to us. Sometimes we feed them and in this moment.The hospital too don’t have enough to support them so we are telling them that as soon as they know that they going to deliver they should prepare well so that they won’t face some of these challenges” she said.
The worried midwife continued that,some of the men have perception that child delivery is free especially when the mothers have active National Health Insurance card.
“So far as they say insurance they think that when they come they won’t pay anything so they come just like that” she added.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Obed Ansah
