MATERNAL health care delivery at the Achimota Hospital is expected to improve significantly since the hospital has received theatre equipment costing $70,00.
The equipment, which included an anaesthesia machine, operating table, patient monitors, radiant heat and diathermy machine, were funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the Focus Region Health Project (FRHP).
The theatre equipment is for the facilitation of the modern maternal unit block at the Achimota Hospital which was completed in 2012 to increase access to maternal care and enhance quality maternal health care delivery.
At ceremony to hand over the equipment, the Medical Superintendent of the Achimota Hospital, Dr Mark M.K. Aglobitse, said the unit recorded 3,256 referral cases in 2011 and 2,278 in 2012, adding that “some of the cases referred outside could have been taken care of in the hospital if it had equipment”.
The absence of a theatre restrained the hospital from performing emergency and minor surgeries.
Some of the cases which could have been taken care of by the hospital, he said, included anaemia, epilepsy and long birth interval.
Dr Aglobitse also stated that the hospital procured 30 per cent of the items needed as well and added that it was also collaborating with the FRHP to construct an incinerator costing GHø40, 000 for the hospital.
He thanked the FRHP and USAID and expressed the hope that the cooperation between the two bodies would continue.
The Chief Party of the FRHP, Dr Edward Bonku, noted that the theatre facilities could help the hospital to achieve the Millennium Development Goals on Maternal Health.
He added that the equipment was part of the four-year development plan by the FRHP to support healthcare delivery in the country.
The whole programme, according to him, was being implemented at the cost of $ 40 million and funded by the USAID, and the goal was to address maternal- related issues, malaria, HIV, nutrition in children and family planning, among others
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