THE Asante Kotoko Kroye Kuo in Washington, DC, in the United States of America (USA), has donated a number of medical equipment to the Subin Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital in Kumasi.
The items, estimated at GH¢5,000 and presented by Mr Osei Kwaku Addai on behalf of the group, are meant to improve healthcare delivery and reduce maternal and child mortality at the hospital.
Among the medical equipment donated by the group were suction machines, Ambu bags, vacuum extracts and oxygen flow materials.
Mr Addai assured the hospital authorities that the society would provide a deep freezer to enhance the preservation of drugs and other medical supplies.
The donation was the third in a series that the Washington-based organisation had made to the hospital as its contribution to make healthcare readily accessible to the numerous patients who visit the hospital on a daily basis.
Mr Addai commended the staff of the hospital for their commitment to provide quality care for expectant mothers, as well as preserving the lives of children with acute health problems.
The Medical Superintendent of the hospital, Dr (Mrs) Annie Opoku, who received the items, said inadequate medical equipment was undermining quality healthcare delivery at the hospital.
She mentioned an X-ray machine as one of the equipment needed at the hospital to enhance health care.
She said poor infrastructure, inadequate water storage facilities and the lack of a generator to power the machines during power outages were some of the challenges confronting healthcare delivery at the hospital.
Dr Opoku said her outfit had already contacted all the financial institutions operating at Adum for support but said they were yet to respond to the request.
She stressed the need for the financial institutions to urgently support the hospital in kind and in cash to improve facilities at the hospital.
She commended the Asante Kotoko Kroye Kuo for its continuous support to the hospital and urged it to sustain it.
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