By
Abebe Dawuni, GNA
Yendi (NR) Jan 16,
GNA – The Global Mission Resources Centre (GMRC) in collaboration with Mission
318 in United States of American (USA) has donated hospital equipment worth
$250,000 to the Yendi hospital in the Northern Region.
The equipment
included; patient trolleys, infant beds, examination tables for Out Patient
Department (OPD), ventilator, supplies for children’s ward, paint equipment to
build beds, all necessary surgical supplies among others, which were shipped by
United Parcel Services (UPS).
Apart from the
equipment, 24 Member Medical Team from Steve West Saint Louis, USA are carrying
out surgical operations on goitre, hernia, growths on the body, Uro-gynaenic
cases, gynaenic cases, breasts masses among others.
Some of the Medical
Team Members included; Dr Steve West for Ear, Nose and throat Surgeon, Dr. Jim
Cassat-general surgeon, Dr. Jon Limpert-General Surgeon, Dr. Cindy Basinski-GYN
surgeon, Nick Colloier-Nurse Arusthetist, Joe Hass Nurse Arusthelist among
others.
Rev. Emmanuel
Kwabena Mustapha, Executive Officer and Founder of Global Mission Centre,
through whose efforts the Yendi hospital was benefiting from the equipment and
the doctors indicated that, the doctors started coming to the area since 2008.
Rev. Mustapha said
the Global Mission Resource Centre was working in infrastructural development
in education, sanitation, health sector among others and supplied 100,000
mosquito nets to prevent malaria in the area.
He said the Yendi
hospital used to transfer some emergency cases to Tamale Teaching Hospital, but
when the Global Mission Resources Hospital built Tele-Mission Intensive Care
Unit (ICU) 1441 in 2017 the referrals issues were solved.
He said surgeries
underway were monitored in USA.
He said this year
400 patients were booked for surgeries, but 106 have been registered for
operations.
Rev Mustapha
appealed to all the stakeholders in the area to help in the health care
delivery to serve the over 180,000 people patronizing the facility.
He said they would
throw their weight behind the Government in the area of development.
Dr. Ayuba Abdulai,
the Yendi Medical Superintendent of the hospital said the facility was a
referral hospital for 10 Municipal and District Assemblies within the Eastern
Corridor and the collaboration with GMRC and Medical Teams from USA for free
surgical care for men, women and children was helpful.
He said the Yendi
Hospital was built in 1947 and since 2008 the GMRC and the American doctors
have been helping the hospital.
He said the hospital
has about 270 bed capacity and needed 13 doctors more.
He said the hospital
lacked critical staff, infrastructure upgrading, equipment, logistics, although
they were managing with what they had.
Dr. Patricia
Limpert, representative of the 24 Member Medical Team said they were challenged
with money and time to bring the team from USA to Ghana to carry out the
surgeries in the Yendi hospital and promised children in the area would be
catered for.
She indicated that
it was her second time in Yendi with the medical team and advised the patients
and the public to be particular about sanitation and hygiene, water and
environment which were important to human lives.
The Leader of the
team Dr. Jon Limpert said at the end of their four days exercise from Sunday 12th
January, 2020 to 16th January, 2020 they would have carried out 70
surgeries in Thyrodectomy, Hysterectomy,Vagina Fistule repair, Myomectomy,
Paratidectomy and Lipoma Excisions.
GNA