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HOSPITALS IN NEED OF URGENT ASSISTANCE

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Can someone, please, befriend these hospitals and support them!!

This is a 130-bed general hospital in the Central Region of Ghana. I worked in that hospital for 3 years up to 6years ago. It is managed by nuns from the Sisters of Charity of St Anne. It is a comparatively small district hospital but very busy indeed. It handles all manner of cases including:

General surgical cases, gynaecological, obstetric and paediatric cases. The caseload is overwhelmingly those of emergencies.
Recently, an Ophthalmology Department has been added to handle eye diseases which are endemic in the area.

There are four doctors based in the hospital. They include one specialist Ophthalmologist and one District Director of Health (who does mainly admin/ Public Health work). That leaves two doctors who effectively run a 1:2 rota.

There is what one calls a laboratory,which has facilities to do just Haemoglobin levels (not a full blood count) plus Grouping and Cross-matching. Blood Urea and Electrolytes or Liver Function Tests are impossible with the given facilities and level of training.

The surgical theatres desperately lack equipment. There is no anaesthetist anyway so Caesarean Sections are done under spinal anaesthesia or ketamine.

Oh! What about the jaundiced neonates? Sorry there are no incubators for intensive care. Doctors have to resort to phototherapy by means of improvised fluorescent lights and a baby cots.

Recently,the government in recognition of the good work being done in the hospital has added an Ophthalmology Unit with a specialist. This unit is implementing an intricate set of programmes including massive numbers of eye-surgeries in a region where blindness is unbelievably common. Hence the financial needs of the hospital have multiplied

Those doctors and nurses out there are heroes! They need our support in the form of money, equipment or even a mere phonecall for encouragement!

If you need further information on how you can assist this hospital or its doctors, please contact:

Mr Takyi-Ansah (The Hospital Secretary) Breman Asikuma Hospital P.O. Box 4, Breman Asikuma Central Region, Ghana, West-Africa.

Telephone: (00233) 041-20810

Alternatively contact Dr Julius Awakame at awa@solidrockexectravel.com

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