CDA Consult, Tema, Ghana, April 19 – The Female Medical Ward of Tema General Hospital is in desperate need of an X-ray machine. Nana Mensima Aikins, Senior Nursing Officer at Tema General Hospital’s Female Medical Ward, has revealed the situation and urged individuals and organisations to respond to their Macedonian cry.
Because the hospital’s solitary mobile X-ray machine is broken, patients are shuttled from their wards to the Outpatient Department (OPD) for X-ray services.
She explained that the movements interfere with the patients’ recuperation and medical processes because some of them had to be taken off of medical treatments or supplemental oxygen in order to be transported to the x-ray department, either in the open or for a cost by ambulance.
Nana Aikins made the comment while the Tema chapter of the Women Empowerment Foundation International (WEFI) presented the hospital’s female medical ward with a gift worth GHC40,000.00.
She noted that, due to the severity of their illnesses, it was not always medically necessary to transport patients from their wards, particularly those located outside, to the x-ray department, necessitating them to pay for an ambulance in some cases.
“The x-ray is a major component for a doctor to make a complete diagnosis of patients for treatment and healing, so if such facilities are not available to speed up the treatment and medication processes, it becomes difficult to even render further services to the patient,” she explained.
She went on to note that another gap in patients’ full diagnoses to aid in their treatment was the lack of electronic vital sign hospital monitors in the female medical ward to record their pulse and oxygen saturation rates, respiratory rate, temperature, and blood pressure.
She claimed that without the patient monitors, “it was difficult to keep track of and record the crucial data required for diagnosis and therapy.”
The 32-bed female section was also overcrowded, with rickety hospital beds, only one adjustable bed, and open lockers that Nana Aikins described as subpar.
As a result, she requested assistance from charitable organisations such as the WEFI and other benevolent individuals.
WEFI replaced and installed all of the ward’s outdated curtains before delivering the donated equipment, which included beds, oxygen tanks, plastic, wheelchairs, zimmer frames, bedsheets, water and soft drink bottles, and an adjustable bed.
Mrs. Christiana Agyemang Berko, President of WEFI’s Tema branch, remarked that the gesture was a continuation of WEFI’s charitable initiatives during the preceding 15 years, which included the adoption of the TGH’s female medical ward in 2017.
The hospital thanked WEFI for their assistance and encouraged other groups and people to make small donations to help the hospital better serve the community.
