The
continuous increase in human population coupled with growing heath care needs
of the people in Ghana has given cause to stakeholders to worry hence the need
for the provision of adequate infrastructure to support the increasing
population.
It
is however evidential that the existing government health facilities are over
burdened with the task of delivering quality health service with relatively
limited resources.
Government
alone cannot resource these facilities across the country which calls for private
partnership, as government and various stakeholders in the health sector are
determined to achieve MDG4 and 5 by 2015.
In
this regard, Ghana’s leading telecommunications company, MTN has donated an
infant incubator to the Savelugu municipal
hospital in the Savelugu municipality today.
The
donation is, therefore, aimed at providing incubators and ventilators to
selected public hospitals which have a need for the facility to improve the
survival rate of premature babies.
Abdualah
H. Yahaya, Portfolio Advisor for MTN Ghana Foundation, explained that, the
statistic available for infant mortality was alarming and requires public
private partnership to help improve the situation.
He
said donating the essential equipment will relieve the anxiety of the health
professionals and parents who have to care for pre-term babies.
Theresa
Lardi Bezuo, a Senior Nurse in charge of the Maternal Ward of the hospital
receiving the equipment commended MTN Ghana Foundation for the kind gesture
saying that the equipment will go a long way to improve quality health care
delivery in the hospital.
She
added that the equipment will also save more infant lives in the hospital.
Meanwhile, the maternal ward of the Savelugu
municipal hospital is being operated by only five midwives making them
overstress on duty.
The situation Madam
Theresa Lardi said might hinder quality health care delivery. She therefore called
for urgent steps to normalize the situation.
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