Story: Mary Ankrah
THE Accra Ridge Church has presented 22 pieces of emergency equipment to the Ridge Hospital in Accra.
The equipment, which included six sphygmomanometers, eight stethoscopes, six wheel chairs, and two patients’ trolleys, was to facilitate the work of medical officers to provide the appropriate care for patients in time of emergency.
The gesture is also aimed at improving the emergency ward of the hospital to render quality healthy care to the general public.
Making the presentation in Accra yesterday, the Accra Ridge Church Council Chairman, Capt Dick Gbesemete, said the equipment was to help the hospital to bring cure to the people and facilitate the work in the emergency ward.
He said it was the church’s responsibility to help hospitals to offer quality health care to the people and expressed the belief that would go a long way to improve the health service at Ridge Hospital.
Receiving the equipment on behalf of the hospital, the Medical Superintendent of the hospital, Dr Obeng Apori, thanked the church for the benevolence and urged other organisations to emulate the kind deed by the church.
He also called on organisations and institutions to help the hospital with the construction of a new pavilion for the antenatal patients.
He explained that due to lack of space in the hospital the antenatal patients passed through the maternity theatre corridor and it was unpleasant sight for them to see other pregnant women being sent to the theatre for operation.
Therefore, he said, it would be appropriate to move the antenatal patients from that corridor to a new pavilion where they would have antenatal, postnatal and emergency obstetrics and gynaecology unit.
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