Accra, Aug. 24, GNA – The Swedru Government Hospital in the Central Region has received two incubators from the Kokrokoo Charities Foundation to aid health care delivery to mothers with preterm babies.
This brings to three the number of incubators donated to the Hospital by the Foundation. The first one was donated in 2022.
These were all sponsored by Mr Richard Quansah, Owner of R&B Farms and Richie Plantations Limited.
The Kokrokoo Charities Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, under its “Project 100 Incubators”, gave out the incubators to address critical needs in healthcare delivery.
So far it has donated 62 incubators to various hospitals in Ghana.
Dr Julius Abuku, the Medical Superintendent of Swedru Government Hospital, said the donation was timely since the two the hospital had were malfunctioning.
The only incubator in use was the one the Foundation donated in 2022, he said, and that they would help reduce the mortality rate of preterm babies.
Before the last donation, the mortality rate of preterm babies was over 10 to 1000 births, but the number had been reduced to less than 10.
He, however, appealed to other benevolent institutions and philanthropists to support the hospital with some retooling equipment to improve health care delivery since most of them were currently old and less effective.
Mr Kwami Sefa Kayi, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kokrokoo Charities Foundation, commended the sponsor, Mr Quansah, for financing the purchase of the incubators.
He expressed the hope that, with his team and benevolent supporters, he would meet his vision of acquiring 100 incubators to support healthcare delivery in the country.
He said what had kept him going was the satisfaction he got from saving the lives of preterm babies.
Mr Quansah, on his part, said he funded the purchase of the equipment to commemorate the 85 birthdays of his twin mothers and to help save the lives of the vulnerable babies.
“This donation is a celebration of the lives of my twin mothers who will turn 85 on August 24. It is to also thank God for his blessings and to support health care delivery in the hospital’s catchment areas,” he said.
The Kokrokoo Charities Foundation is a social intervention initiative set up by Mr Kayi, presenter of Peace FM’s Kokrokoo Morning Show, and aimed at identifying and addressing critical social needs in Ghana and helping resolve emerging development challenges.
The Foundation’s project 100 incubators initiated in 2014 had saved many preterm babies across the country.
GNA