Ghana’s power transmission company, GRIDCo, has partially relieved the management of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, one of the heavily patronised teaching hospitals in Ghana, the pain the facility has been going through due to inadequate power drills at the hospital’s Accident, Emergency and Orthopaedic centres.
The hospital, which serves as a referral hospital for most emergency cases in the West African nation, is supposed to have a minimum of ten power drills at the accident and emergency centre to carry out effective surgery operations yet it had only two, thus, putting undue pressure on staff and management of the facility.
Energynewsafrica.com understands that because of the inadequate power drills, the management of the hospital is sometimes compelled to cancel trauma surgeries.
The device is used for trauma surgery and also for the reconstruction of the cruciate ligament during surgery.
Making the presentation of the two devices, Mr Kofi Okofo-Dartey, Director, Strategy and Corporate Services of GRIDCo, said GRIDCo’s engagement with the management of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital revealed the critical need of the hospital and decided to assist.
He said the donation formed part of the company’s corporate social responsibility to give back to society.
“GRIDCo is an organisation that takes corporate social responsibility very seriously. If you know the nature of our work, we transmit all over the country and our people criss-cross, so accidents are also part of our system, therefore, the need to assist,” he said.
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Receiving the device, the Acting Chief Executive Officer of KBTH, Dr. Daniel Ankrah thanked the company for the gesture and promised that the items would be put to good use.
The Head of Department of Accident, Emergency and Orthopedics, Dr Fredrick Kwarteng said the donation came at the right time, adding that “in fact, we need an average of 10 functional drills per day because the department has three functional theatres and each theatre must have, at least, five drills so that in a day, we can fix the legs of about 15 accident victims a day.
“As at last week, the department was down with only two drills because all the drills had broken down, accident victims who had their limbs broken had their operations being cancelled because the department’s drills had all broken down,” he said.
Dr. Kwarteng said several patients had their surgeries cancelled due to the absence of the drill machines which had broken down.
He called on other organisations to emulate the gesture and assist the hospital, adding that everyone is a possible accident victim.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com
