Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah presenting the items to Dr Kwabena Opoku Adusei
The Tema Polyclinic is to be upgraded into a modern district hospital to enable it to cater adequately for the increasing number of patients.
In line with that, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has planned to furnish the healthcare delivery centre with the needed inputs to meet the demand of the people and to mitigate the overpowering pressure on the Tema General Hospital.
The parliamentary candidate of the NPP in the Tema West Constituency, Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah, made this known when he made two separate presentations of medical equipment and logistics to health facilities in the Tema Metropolis as part of his 50th birthday which fell yesterday.
The beneficiary hospitals were the Tema Polyclinic in Community 2 and the Tema General Hospital.
Items presented at the Tema Polyclinic included an examination bed, examination lamp, disposable gloves, disposable speculum, pillows, trash bins, hospital beds, breathing circuits, delivery bed, trolleys, diathermy, catheters, CTG machines and accessories, syringes and stabilisers and a scan machine, all estimated at about $50,000.
Receiving the items, Dr Josephine Boateng, the administrator of the Tema Polyclinic, stated how overwhelmed they were by the kind of items donated to the health facility.
According to her, “Most often, it’s government who support us with this kind of equipment and not individual and we look out for individuals and corporate bodies to also support with consumables, but to be frank with you since the establishment of this facility, we have not received any donation of this nature before.”
The administrator of the polyclinic assured Mr Ahenkorah of putting the equipment into good use.
At the Tema General Hospital, a donation was made at an amount of about $ 60, 000.
Mr Ahenkorah said the premier health facility in Tema is a very important one, as it provides healthcare to people over a very wide catchment area.
According to him, he was impressed with the services being provided at the hospital, and gave an assurance that his outfit would continue to support the effort of the management of the facility in order to deliver a world class healthcare to the people.
For his part, Dr Kwabena Opoku Adusei, medical director of the Tema General Hospital, expressed his appreciation to Mr Ahenkorah and his team for the equipment, adding that it would go a long way to help the people of the catchment area to stay healthy at all times.
He appealed to philanthropists and other corporate organisations to come to the aid of the Tema General Hospital to save the facility from collapse.
From Vincent Kubi, Tema