Leticia Osafo-Addo (middle with microphone) handing over the incubator to officials of Tema General Hospital on behalf of iMEM Foundation. Looking on is Dr Martin Aniagyei (left), Comfort Aniagyei (2nd left), Dr Adjoa Dsane (3rd right) and other officials from the recipient health facility
iMEM Foundation, a non-governmental organisation engaged in advocacy for transform leadership, has donated an incubator to the neo-natal intensive care unit of the Tema General Hospital.
Handing over the incubator to officials of the hospital, the Director of iMEM Foundation, Comfort Aniagyei, said the gesture is to ensure that the health facility is best placed to deal with the challenges of infant mortality.
“We believe that it is right to reach out to Tema General Hospital’s neo-natal intensive care unit because all human life begins in a maternity room,” she indicated.
Mrs Aniagyei stated that iMEM Foundation holds the view that the donated incubator would relieve the anxiety of hard working officials of NICU just because the Tema General Hospital does not have adequate number of incubators.
“We also understand the anxiety parents of these unfortunate babies go through all in a bid to ensure that their babies get the extra health care they require to live on after the first few days upon their entry in this world,” she pointed out.
Receiving the donated incubator, Dr Adjoa Dsane, medical officer in-charge of the neo-natal intensive care unit, mentioned that the lack of incubators at the hospital is a challenge to quality healthcare delivery at the facility.
According to her, the hospital currently has four incubators, thus, compelling officials manning the facility to put two or three pre-term babies in one incubator.
She mentioned that though it is not the best, it is aimed at ensuring that they improve care of the babies to reduce the mortality rate of pre-term in the hospital.
Dr Dsane called on well-meaning Ghanaians to come to the aid of the health facility with more incubators to reduce the pressure on the functioning ones.