A University of Ghana clinic that now serves as a district hospital has received medical equipment worth over GHS 290,000 from Newmont to ease shortages straining its wards.
The facility began as a service point for university staff and their dependants before growing into a hospital that treats surrounding communities and takes referrals from as far as the Mampong Hospital in the Eastern Region. Its internal medicine department, which handles emergencies and critically ill patients, had been working with too little equipment, slowing work and affecting patient outcomes.
Newmont supplied patient monitors, hospital beds with mattresses, infusion pumps, an electrocardiogram machine, suction machines, ward screens, drip stands and bedside cabinets. The hospital expects the items to improve monitoring and treatment and to make patients more comfortable.
The donation answered a direct request from the department, driven by the hospital’s Chief Nursing Officer, Grace Kumi. Presenting the equipment, Newmont’s Director of Communications and External Relations, David Johnson, said a shortage of critical equipment remains one of the biggest obstacles to good care, and that skilled staff cannot work well without the right tools.
Professor Godwin Abeka-Nkrumah, who chairs the hospital’s management committee and serves as the university’s Director of Institutional Advancement, received the items and thanked Newmont on behalf of Vice Chancellor Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo. He said the equipment would sharpen patient monitoring and ease the load on staff, and gave an assurance that it would be kept in working order. Hospital Director Dr Afua Amoabeng also welcomed the support.
The gift follows other recent health donations by the mining company, among them medical equipment worth more than GHS 2 million handed to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in January for its intensive care and paediatric cancer units, and a separate donation to health facilities in Tano North in February.
