HOSPITAL TO GENERATE MORE FUNDS FOR STRUCTURES (PAGE 21)

THE management of Mary Theresa Catholic Hospital at Dodi Papase in the Kadjebi District in the Volta Region has decided to use more than GH¢5,000 from its internally generated funds to provide new structures for the facility and also renovate the existing ones to enhance healthcare.
Among the projects to be undertaken are the construction and refurbishment of a modern theatre and mortuary, renovation of offices, staff bungalows, adult and children’s wards.
The hospital has so far generated about GH¢1,000 for the projects and sponsorship of 21 student nurses; 10 of whom have completed their courses.
The remaining 11 are expected to complete their three-year course at the various nurses’ training colleges very soon.
A German non-governmental organisation (NGO), the German Rotary Volunteer Doctors, is also assisting the hospital with the construction of the theatre and its refurbishment.
The NGO has already assisted with the renovation of the medical laboratory and furnished it in addition to the donation of mattresses and beds for the wards of the hospital.
It has also decided to donate a generator, vehicles and other logistics to the health facility to enhance quality health delivery in the district.
Conducting the Daily Graphic round the hospital premises, the Hospital Administrator, Mr Stannard Issah Mahama, commended the media for their assistance to the hospital over the years.
He, however, noted with regret that the hospital which served a large number of people from all walks of life, lacked resources, both human and material, to enhance service delivery.
Mr Mahama said out of the 36 nurses needed by the hospital, only 13 were currently at post, stressing “worst of all, the health facility had no resident doctor”.
He said the absence of staff accommodation was one of the hospital’s major problem.
Mr Mahama was happy about the co-operation between the staff and the general public with regard to activities of the hospital and called on the people to sustain the interest they had developed in the facility.