TAMALE TEACHING HOSPITAL RECEIVES MEDICAL EQUIPMENT

THE Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) has taken delivery of a large quantity of assorted medical equipment estimated to be worth over $2million.
Notable among the equipment, which were delivered to the hospital in a cargo container, are three COBE dialysis machines, birthing beds, ventilators and EKG units, which are used for graphical recording of the cardiac cycle.
The equipment were donated to the hospital by a United States (US)-based aid organisation, The Children of Abraham, through some Ghanaian citizens in the US.
According to officials of the hospital, this is one of the biggest donations ever received by the hospital and it has come at a time when the hospital is refurbishing and expanding its units to deliver standard services required of a tertiary facility.
Mr Alidu Fuseini, a Ghanaian civil servant presented the items to the Northern Regional Minister, Mr Moses Bukari Mabengba and management of the hospital at a short ceremony in Tamale.
Mr Fuseini explained that on one of his visits to the US, he, together with Prof Rufai Misbau and Mrs Habiba Fuseini, who are both executives of the Ghana Northern Union of Chicago, approached the donor organisation with the challenges facing the TTH.
“The organisation accepted willingly to assist the TTH with medical equipment. Dr Abass Adam was then contacted to liaise and supply all the equipment needed because the philanthropists did not believe in supplying items that will not be needed,” he mentioned.
Mr Fuseini said the items were therefore compiled based on the list presented to the donors and mentioned that the container had more than 1800 boxes full of medical equipment.
He however cautioned the hospital management to take proper care of the items because “these are very valuable items which are critical to health care delivery.”
“It would be very sad to hear later that some of them were stolen at the store,” he added.
The regional minister thanked the organisation for its kind gesture, describing it as very timely and essential.
He said although the government was totally committed to resourcing healthcare institutions in the country, “the government alone cannot do all due to resource constraints.”
Meanwhile, the TTH has also received an Ambulance from the City of Chicago through the Ghana – American Chamber of Commerce and the Ghana Northern Union of Chicago.
According to Mr Alidu Fuseini, The city had a number of ambulances to donate around the world and Ghana succeeded in attracting two of these ambulances due to the successful collaboration among the various partners.
He also mentioned that an amount of $6000 was raised by members of the Ghana Northern Union of Chicago to pay for the shipment of the Ambulance to Ghana.
He commended the outgoing Mayor of Chicago, Mayor Richard M. Daley for his efforts in securing the ambulances for Ghana.