AMERICAN NGO DONATES TO HOSPITAL (PAGE 32)

Story & Pix: Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, Dixcove

Direct Relief International, an American NGO based in Santa Barbara in California, through an American couple resident in Ghana, has donated medical equipment, drugs and other hospital items worth $200,000 to the Nana Hima Dekyi Government Hospital at Dixcove in the Ahanta West District in the Western Region.
The items included mattresses, beds, speculum, wound closure, scapel, 208 cartons of drugs made up of pain killers and antibiotics, baby blankets, head tractions, towels, catheter, autoclave, ambo bags, a suction machine, alcohol pre-pad, nasal congestants and face masks.
The couple, Mr and Mrs Peter Nadine, served as interns at the hospital two years ago and contacted the NGO to assist the hospital get some of its requirements.
Currently, they operate a restaurant at Busia, a community in the district.
Mr Nadine said they had benefited from the peace-loving community, adding that “what I am doing is to give back to the community I have come to love and appreciated due to the friendly and hospitable nature of the people”.
He said he had drawn up a proposal on how to source funds for the development of a good water system for the hospital at a cost of $50,000.
“I have come to realise that the rainfall in the region was good and that it could be harvested and treated for use by the hospital and the community,” he said.
The District Medical Director, Dr Osei Frimpong, who received the items, said some of them had been listed for procurement and thanked the donors for the timely intervention.