Deputy Minister of Information, Oppong Nkrumah gives to St. Joseph’s Hospital on birthday
Deputy Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has donated
medical equipment and consumables to the St Joseph’s Hospital in
Koforidua.
The donation was part of activities to mark his 36th birthday, which
fell on April 5, 2018. The items worth Gh₵30,000 included nebulizer
kits, surgical items, personal protective equipment and monitors.
Handing over the items on behalf of the deputy minister, Mr Kojo
Amoabeng, Operations Assistant at the Deputy Minister’s office explained
that giving back to society was of great importance to the deputy
minister hence the gesture.
The Health Director of the hospital, Mr Valentine Bruku, expressed great appreciation for the kind gesture.
“We thank the honourable minister for this gesture and we are highly
impressed with the donation.
The equipment donated will improve health
care delivery in the facility and help curb the spread of infections
from patients and staff as this hospital is known for surgical
interventions,” he noted.
He further encouraged the public to make donations to facilities in the
country to help cover for the cost of health delivery. According to him,
the donation was timely because it will boost delivery of services to
its clientele considering that the hospital focuses on orthopaedics,
trauma and general surgery.
Mr. Bruku lauded the Deputy Minister’s effort at contributing to
health delivery of the area. This is the second time the MP is donating
to a health facility this year after presenting items to eight centres
in the Ofoase-Ayirebi constituency.
Nursing Director of the hospital Mrs Beatrice Addai Kwaning said the donation comes as a huge relief to the hospital.
“The items donated by the minister today will improve productivity
and relieve us in the delivery of our duties. Most of our clients are
bedridden and so we take a lot of efforts to move them around and this
is being done by the nurses. You can imagine what the nurses go through
doing this and sometimes ending up with back aches due to the weights
they lift. The patient lift and monitors will be of great help to the
nurses in dispensing their duties,” Mrs. Kwaning stated.
Commenting on the motivation for the donation, the MP for Ofoase
Ayirebi said: “In my days at Pope John Senior High school, St Joseph’s
Hospital was a saviour to many of us. And I felt it was good opportunity
to give back to the community as my Alma Mata marked its 60th
Anniversary earlier this year.”
Mr Oppong Nkrumah also noted that health is of utmost priority to him and therefore found the need to invest in it.
He charged members of staff of the facility to take care of the
equipment with great care, stressing that lack of maintenance culture in
the country had contributed to a lot of resources going down the drain.
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