Tamale, June 17, GNA – Operation Smile Ghana, an international Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), on Wednesday, donated assorted Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) valued at about GHS24,580 to the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) to support the response against COVID-19.
The items included; five accutor-plus patient monitors, safety gloves, surgical gowns, surgical face masks, 110 face shields, N95 nose masks and examination gloves.
Mr Henry Quist, Executive Board Member of Operation Smile Ghana, presenting the items, said the gesture was to help build capacities of health workers in the facility to empower them to contain the spread of the virus in the region.
He indicated that “the TTH has been our partners over the years so it was important that we reach out to them and offer our support to help improve on the work they are doing to fight the disease”.
He pledged his organization’s commitment to provide other medical equipment such as ventilators to the hospital in other to enhance quality health care delivery to clients to the facility.
Madam Evelyn Danikuu, Director of Nursing at the TTH, who received the items on behalf of the hospital, expressed gratitude to the organisation for their support, and added that the items came at a time when they were needed most.
“What you have presented today are parts of the many equipment we needed for this hospital and the COVID-19 patients, and we will rightly use them for the purpose for which they are presented”, she said.
She said the items, especially the accutor-plus patient monitors would enhance health care delivery in the theatres and other wards, which she added, would improve the health status of patients.
Madam Danikuu appealed to other institutions to support the hospital with adequate medical equipment, especially ventilators to cater for other ailments that require the use of such equipment.
GNA