THE National Lottery Authority (NLA) has donated two power drill machines worth £33,800 to the accident centre of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.
The power drill machine is an essential equipment for surgeries on accident patients.
Brigadier General Martin Ahiaglo, Director General of NLA, who presented the machines to the hospital authorities last Thursday, said the donation was in response to an appeal made by the hospital to the NLA.
He said the accident centre was the biggest in Ghana with a huge patient burden which in most cases required intensive care or immediate surgery.
“What could be more frustrating than to feel incapacitated not by lack of knowledge but by the lack of adequate resources to save lives”, he asked.
The acting Head of the Accident Unit, Dr Michael Segbefia, said the unit had two electronic drills which were not enough.
According to him, an average of 20,000 accident casualties are recorded nationwide yearly, a third of which are recorded at the KBTH.
The acting Chief Executive Officer of KBTH, Reverend Albert Botchwey, who received the equipment, expressed gratitude to the authority saying that it would go a long way to support health care delivery in the hospital.
He urged other corporate bodies to emulate the gesture by the NLA to save lives.
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