GHANA NORTHERN UNION ON METROPOLITAN CHICAGO DONATE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES TO BOLGA HOSPITAL

Story: Benjamin Xornam Glover, Bolgatanga The Ghana Northern Union of the Metropolitan Chicago in the United States of America, has handed over an assortment of medical equipment and supplies to the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital. The forty foot container full of medical equipment and supplies were sourced from a US based group, Children of Abraham, whose aimed is to assist humans and promote peaceful co-existence among God’s children. Among the consignment was a dialysis machine, hospital beds, wheel chairs, ultra sound machines, clutches, microscopes, examination tables, laboratory and surgical equipments and medical consumables among several others all valued at over $ 1.5 million. A member of the union, Mr. Alidu Fuseini, who presented the items to management of the hospital said the donation which was made possible through the Queen Mother of the Chicago Northern Union, Pagnaa Habiba Seidu Fuseini and Professor Rufai Misbau also of Chicago together with members of the union was targeted complementing government’s efforts in helping deliver quality health service to their kith and kin back home. Mr. Fuseini, who is also the Chief Director at the Office of the Head of Civil Service, the union three years ago presented school supplies to schools in Bongo and just last year handing over a state of the art ambulance from the City of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and a similar forty foot consignment of medical equipment and supplies to the Tamale Teaching Hospital. Mr. Fuseini said though the donation was in the name of the Bolgatanga Hospital, he appeal to management and the Regional Health Directorate to dispatch some of the equipment to clinics, health centres and CHPS compounds in the remotest villages to enable the people benefit from it. He also gave the assurance that the people of the Upper West Region will soon also receive their share of assorted medical equipment from the union to help in the health service delivery. Later in an interview with the Daily Graphic, Mr. Fusieni appealed to health workers who refuse postings to the northern parts of the country to reconsider their decision. “They should try and come and they will see the difference. Apparently whenever they come, they tend to stay and don’t even want to go back when they see that this place is not as bad as they think it is”, he said. The region faces serious shortage of health workers including doctors and pharmacists as personnel posted there to work most often refuse the postings. Receiving the items, Deputy Regional Director of Health Service in charge of Public Health, Dr. James Akpablie commended the group for the donation and appealed to various benevolent groups to assist the region’s heath facilities with medical equipment to aid them in the discharge of their duties. “Our hospitals and especially health centers have been in need of so many items and sometimes we are not able to provide certain services because those items are not there. Sometimes we don’t have beds for sick patients so you go to the hospital and some of the patients are lying on the floor and this has been of worry to the managers of the system”, he said Dr. Peter Baffoe, Medical Director of the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital also appreciation to the group and pledged that items will be judiciously used for the benefit of the people. -End-