To improve the delivery of high-quality healthcare, the Volta Regional Hospital, Hohoe has received donations of medical supplies and equipment from the Bank of Ghana Ladies Association (BoG Ladies).
The donations, which included a brand-new Mindray DC 30 ultrasound scanner, bedsheets with the Bank of Ghana logo, printing supplies, gels, and patient monitors, were made during a brief ceremony in Hohoe.
“The call on us for an ultrasound scan machine was to us an emotional appeal and a life-saving necessity that required an urgent provision,” said Ms. Ivy Adjimah, President of the BoG Ladies, during her speech at the ceremony. Given the importance of the machine, especially its assistance with diagnosis, and consequently, the existing clinical deficiency due to its unavailability, Sincerely, I must admit that we are quite happy to have fulfilled our commitment by giving the Municipal Hospital a brand-new Mindray DC 30 ultrasound scanner for its healthcare delivery services. The ultrasound scanner can also be utilized for elastography and Doppler scans in addition to obstetrics and gynecology. Additionally, it can be used to check the heart and neighboring
“I am so much elated to also inform you that, in addition to the ultrasound machine, we are also donating Patient Monitor which measures, records, distribute, and displays biometric values such as heart rates, SP02, blood pressure, temperature and more. It may interest you to know that our ability of reaching out to another region within this country brings us much satisfaction of what our charitable organization holds as one of its visions. That is, extending the tentacles of our benevolent operations beyond Greater Accra
Region”.
Ms. Adjimah called on the Management of the Hospital to take good care of the items donated and exhibit a high level of maintenance culture, so it could serve more people in and beyond the Region.
She expressed gratitude to the Governor and Deputy Governors of the Bank of Ghana, as well as all the ladies who constitute BoG Ladies for the joy and eagerness with which they received and approved of the benevolent initiative and subsequently contributed their quota
cheerfully and bounteously towards the purchase of the items.
Mr. Victor Akakpo, the Volta Regional Manager of the Bank of Ghana noted that, the donation from BoG Ladies was one of the numerous interventions the Bank of Ghana had done in the Volta, Oti and other regions of the country.
He said some CSRs of the Bank in the Hohoe Municipality were the donation of equipment to the Eye Clinic of the Regional Hospital, equipment to the Physiotherapy Unit of the Hospital and donation of computer tables to the Hohoe Midwifery Training School.
Others include the construction of a 6-unit water closet for the Volta School for the Deaf, construction of pavilion for Alavanyo Senior High Technical School, repair of the old ambulance and the construction of 20 modern toilet facilities at Gbi Bla, a suburb of Hohoe.
Mr. Akakpo said the scanner donated had an “iclear spectacle reduction imaging technology” capable of reducing the image speckle noise and had a clearer and shaper lesion contour which could give a clear picture of soft tissues that do not show up well on x-ray
images.
He noted that the scanner was one of the preferred imaging modalities for the diagnosis and monitoring of pregnant women and their unborn babies that provides real-time imaging.
Mr. Akakpo said the Bank of Ghana was very much concerned about the health of staff and the general public as a whole and would be grateful if proper care and good maintenance culture was adopted to keep the machine in a good working condition to help the Hospital
continue to deliver quality health care in the Municipality and beyond.
Mr. Charles Torkornoo, Head of Administration of the Volta Regional Hospital, on behalf of the Medical Superintendent, said the Hospital had done all it could to improve on maternal and child health services in the Hospital.
He noted that looking at the number of pregnant women that came to the facility from antenatal care (ANC) through to delivery, there was the need to focus more on mothers and children since children were the future leaders.
Mr. Torkornoo expressed gratitude to BoG Ladies for the donation, adding that the Hospital acknowledged the tremendous support the Bank of Ghana had given the Hospital over the years.
He said the machine had come at the right time and would play a critical role in ensuring health care delivery especially when the OPD attendance of the Hospital keeps increasing with the ANC attendance, recording significant figures.
Mama Dzitri II, Vice President of the Hohoe Municipal Council of Queens, said the donation came at the right time and said this would ensure that women had quality healthcare while calling on management of the Hospital to take good care of the items.
The President of BoG Ladies, Ms. Ivy Adjimah was accompanied by Mrs. Josephine OforiTeiko, Secretary, Mrs. Audrey C. N. D. Agyekum, Assistant Secretary, Mrs. Florence Afedu- Koomson, Assistant Treasurer, Ms. Sarah Panford, Organizing Secretary and Mrs.
Alice Aboagye, Assistant Organizing Secretary.
