Sebastian R. Freiku
9 November 2009
Kumasi — A UNITED States Health Cure Foundation Project, has donated a 40-footer container of medial equipment to the Tepa District Hospital and the Health Assistant Training School at Tepa in the Ahafo Ano North district of Ashanti.
The items included anaesthesia circuit sets, Oxygen masks and tubing, nebuliser supplies, chest tubes and drainage unit, surgical instrument kit, surgical gowns, beds and 100 medical books.
Mr. Addai Amankwah, the District Chief Executive, who was at the presentation ceremony hoped the equipment would go a long way to improve the quality of health delivery service in the district, and to enhance effective teaching and learning at the training school.
He thanked both the chief of Tepa, Nana Adusei Atwenewaa Ampem II and Dr. Isaac Akuamoah Boateng, the Medical Superintendent of the Tepa Hospital for their collective roles played to secure the equipment and enhance training.
Pointing to the prevalence of poor nutrition, poor environmental sanitation and unsafe water supplies among other disturbing features of the health scene in the district, the DCE also observed that the donation would promote health and prevent diseases, as well as support the health status of the people which is said to be very low.
Dr. Akuamoah Boateng thanked the Health Cure Foundation for their continued assistance to the health needs of the people, and expressed appreciation to the District Assembly and the Regional Health directorate for the support in securing the items from the Harbour, without paying any form of tax.
Mrs. Victoria Amoah, Principal of the Tepa Health Assistants Training School assured that with the donation of medical books, the school's library would soon be opened. The Omanhene of Tepa, who presided over the presentation ceremony also hinted that the donors intend donating another 40-footer container of hospital equipments to the Tepa Hospital by the close of the year.
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