Mr John Watson, Director of Ghana Ministries of Give Hope Global, said the humanitarian service formed part of the organization’s annual and continued philanthropic gesture to health facilities in the Kwahu East and South Districts of the Eastern Region.
Participants at the enhanced training programme were nurses, midwives and physician assistants.
They were taken through clinical hands-on training of child resuscitation, birth and post-birth complications, hypertensive emergency management, electrocardiogram interpretation, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Mr Watson said the organization was poised to improving maternal and child healthcare in underserved communities and had donated medical equipment that would enhance services in such facilities to reduce the rate at which basic cases were referred to hospitals.
The donated equipment were ultrasounds, solar vaccine refrigerator, laboratory hematology and chemistry autoanalyzers, clinical examination tables, stethoscopes, and oximeters, fetal monitors, Bilirubinmeters – a jaundice detector for babies, specialized beds for treating neonatal jaundice, and devices for orthopedic rehabilitation.
“This will give relief to the hospitals because they can rest assured that only cases that are beyond control of the clinics would be referred to them for treatment,” he indicated.
Improving healthcare would reduce the maternal and child mortality rates which occur in the hard-to-reach facilities, he added.
Mr Watson said the equipment were distributed to the Kwahu Atibie Government Hospital, Pepease Health Centre, Nkwantanang Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Compound, Obomeng CHPS Centre, and the Atibie Nursing and Midwifery College.
An ultrasound and other teaching devices such as phlebotomy manikins and suturing kits were given to the Atibie Nursing and Midwifery College’s Simulation Laboratory so that nursing and midwifery students in the school would be well equipped with ultrasound skills.
The solar-powered refrigerators were given to the Pepease Health Centre, and Nkwantanang CHPS Compound at the remote area for the appropriate storage and supply chain distribution of vaccines.
GNA
