Rotary Club of Kumasi donates equipment to aid maternal and childcare at St. Michaels Hospital at Pramso – Nsemkeka
The Rotary Club of Kumasi has stepped in to provide some of the needed equipment for the St. Michael Hospital to improve maternal and child care.
The group donated a delivery bed, patient monitors, and a suction machine to aid medical care.
It is in response to the needs of St. Michael Hospital, which seeks more clinical monitors and other equipment to enhance care for critically ill patients and emergency cases.
President of the Rotary Club of Kumasi, Nana Afia Osei Asamoah, indicated, “They had challenges and we responded to the call for support. We had to assist them to ease the pressure and challenges of the hospital.”
Though the equipment were donated with maternal and child health in mind, other areas will benefit from the gesture.
Presently, the hospital relies on eight clinical monitors at the emergency and recovery wards that are assigned to patients based on the severity of their cases.
Medical Director, Dr. Samuel Yaw Adu, has indicated, aside from monitors, that the facility is in need of other essential equipment to improve service delivery.
“We have a tall list of equipment we have to procure, but we don’t have the resources for that. For monitors, almost everybody admitted will need one but we don’t have enough, especially for critical cases management.”
At the facility’s emergency ward, medical monitors that display and track patients’ vital signs and other parameters are inadequate, with the recovery ward encountering similar challenges.
St. Michael’s Hospital was upgraded to a hospital status in 1960 to cater for the healthcare needs of people in the Bosomtwe District and its environs.
Over the years, the hospital has upgraded its facilities to offer some specialty care.
Nonetheless, the 144-bed capacity hospital continues to grapple with equipment challenges which have negatively affected healthcare delivery.
The catholic facility was established to provide social service to the people, hence, some of the vulnerable people who are treated at the facility are unable to foot their bills.
In some instances, the hospital relies on its poor and sick fund to support such cases.
Dr. Yaw Adu indicates the situation has negatively affected retooling efforts.