REGIONAL MINISTER DONATES BOXES OF MEDICATED GLASSES TO UDS HOSP. 23rd July, 2019
The Regional Minister for Ghana’s Upper East Region, Hon.
Paulina Patience Abayage on Tuesday afternoon, presented three boxes of
medicated spectacles to the University for Development Studies [UDS] Hospital
in Navrongo, capital of the Kassena-Nankana Municipality.
At a brief gathering to formally present the package to
authorities of the hospital, Hon. Abayage disclosed that the boxes contained a
total of 1,500 pieces of the medicated spectacles as well as other eye glasses
that are usually worn after surgeries to prevent infection and other impurities
from settling on the healing eyes.
Meanwhile, a Director of University Health Services Dr. Kabiru K. Azeez, who received the donation thanked the regional minister for the intervention saying the hospital was currently conducting an eye screening exercise and that, the spectacles will duly go to patients who needed such assistive devices.
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| Hon. Paulina Abayage [UE/RM] Presenting the package |
She disclosed that the package was made possible through the
benevolence of the Lions Club in Torino, Italy and sent to her through Ghana’s
Honorary Consul to Torino, Mr. Salvatore De Fazio. She described both the Lions
Club and the Honorary Consul as good friends she had made during her duty as
Ghana’s Ambassador to Italy and expressed joy that such friendship had become
beneficial to the public.
Hon. Abayage said she had learnt from a friend who is a staff
of the university, of the critical health services the hospital was providing
not only to the students and staff of the university, but also to the larger
public of Navrongo and beyond as a result of which, she offered to help in the
area of eye-related health care at the facility. She promised that whenever she
was able to solicit any form of assistance, she would definitely be returning
to the facility to help.
The Regional Minister was also excited and relieved about the
presence and operations of the UDS hospital stressing that, it saves time for
clients from its immediate environs as well as, reduce pressure on the main hospital
in the municipality.
This UDS Hospital is the second institution within the
Navrongo area to receive a donation from Hon. Abayage in less than a week. Just
towards the end of last week, she presented a desktop computer and its
accessories to the Navrongo Police Command.
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| Several boxes of the spectacles ready for presentation |
Meanwhile, a Director of University Health Services Dr. Kabiru K. Azeez, who received the donation thanked the regional minister for the intervention saying the hospital was currently conducting an eye screening exercise and that, the spectacles will duly go to patients who needed such assistive devices.
Dr. Azeez stated that the university was considered as a
community and that it was only properly for every community to have one form of
health facility or the other according to standards by the World Health
Organisation. He indicated that initially, the facility targeted to cater for
health needs of its staff and students, but there was an increasing need to
open up to the general public and so, the hospital had since become a public
one.
He revealed that the hospital had a bed capacity of 20 –
female ward furnished with 10 beds and the male ward also equipped with 10. He
added that, it officially commenced operations in 2015 and was outsourced it to
a private person to operate but that since April 2019, the university fully
took back the facility and was running it. He disclosed that the hospital had
three doctors while the authorities occasionally bring in specialists in
various areas of health to attend to the needs of clients.
Dr. Azeez disclosed further that, the hospital runs an
effective operation room whilst discussions were ongoing with health
authorities to bring on antenatal services and also secure accreditation to
render services under the National Health Insurance Scheme.
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