{"id":1011656,"date":"2022-03-05T15:39:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T15:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/05\/goil-donates-100-hospital-beds-to-kath\/"},"modified":"2022-03-05T15:39:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T15:39:13","slug":"goil-donates-100-hospital-beds-to-kath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/05\/goil-donates-100-hospital-beds-to-kath\/","title":{"rendered":"GOIL donates 100 hospital beds to KATH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\n                                                   Kumasi, March.04, GNA \u2013 The Ghana Oil Company (GOIL) has, as part of its corporate social responsibility, donated 100 hospital beds to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1.21427444.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"kMediaObject\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The beds, valued at GH\u20b5480, 000.00, are meant to aid in-patient care and replace worn-out ones at the various wards at the facility.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr Kwame Osei Prempeh, Managing Director of GOIL, presenting the beds to the management of the facility, noted that it was disheartening to see patients, who were suffering, lying on the bare floor due to inadequate beds at the various health facilities.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">\u201cWe need to stock the hospitals well enough to enable health professionals to effectively attend to all patients, who report at the facilities,\u201d he stated.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He said efficient health delivery was key to humans\u2019 existence and called for efforts by Ghanaians to assist in providing quality healthcare since the government could not do it all alone.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr Osei Prempeh noted that the company had over years provided logistics, including hospital beds, to some hospitals to bring relief to the people they served<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He commended the KATH for the excellent services they rendered to the people in the northern sector of the country.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Dr Oheneba Owusu-Danso, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), KATH, commended GOIL for its continued support to the hospital.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He said during the period of the COVID-19, GOIL presented quantities of personal protective equipment and a heavy-duty purpose ventilator to assist patients at the highly infectious treatment area.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Dr Owusu-Danso said the beds would go a long way to assist the hospital\u2019s operations.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He said the specialised services that KATH offered and its strategic location served as the key referral centre for 13 out of the 16 regions in the country, making beds important.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The CEO stated that some of the beds would be used as preserves so that they could be functional in non-operational areas when there were other emergencies.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He appealed to individuals and corporate bodies to continue to assist the hospital, especially as the country continued to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kumasi, March.04, GNA \u2013 The Ghana Oil Company (GOIL) has, as part of its corporate social responsibility, donated 100 hospital beds to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi. The beds, valued at GH\u20b5480, 000.00, are meant to aid in-patient care and replace worn-out ones at the various wards at the facility. Mr Kwame Osei [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1011657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[5696,2332,550,1345,1573],"class_list":["post-1011656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-beds","tag-donates","tag-goil","tag-hospital","tag-kath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}