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Wa, Ghana – Upper West Region’s leading hospital, the University for Development (UDS) Hospital in Wa– has received a shot in the arm with the donation of modern medical equipment and consumables from Rotary Club International in the United States of America.
The donations were presented to the UDS Director of Health Services, Dr. Azeez Kabiru Koredele and the Medical Director of the Wa UDS Hospital, Dr. Thomas Moore Zielley by the President of Rotary Club Wa, Rosina Yenli on Wednesday.
The items, which are in two forty foot containers, include a defibrillator, electrocardiogram machine, incubators, beds, theatre sets, life support equipment, consumables and wheelchairs among others, are worth US$275,000.
According to Madam Rosina, Rotary Club Foundation contributed US$33,000 whereas the remaining cash donations to purchase the medical equipment and consumables came from benevolent donors.
She said the donation of medical equipment to the Wa UDS hospital would help save lives and also restore smiles to the faces of many.
She urged management and staff of the hospital to make good use of the medical equipment and to continue to offer quality healthcare services to their clients.
Vice Chancellor of the UDS, Professor Gabriel Ayum Teye in a speech read for him, commended Rotary Club International and the Wa Rotary Club for the enormous support they have extended to the university.
He said the donations would go a long to increase the services that the hospital currently provide especially maternal and child healthcare.
Anticipating an increase in the number of people who would be seeking healthcare at the hospital following the donation by Rotary Club International, he appealed to government to assist the university to expand the hospital.
While commending Rotary Club International and Rotary Club Wa for their decision to extend such immense support to the university’s hospital, Prof. Gabriel Ayum Teye again appealed to government and philanthropists to assist the hospital to get an ambulance.
As one of the least developed regions in Northern Ghana, Wa– which is the regional capital has fewer hospitals offering specialist services to the general public.
Until recently, specialist cases such as endoscopy, ophthalmology, trauma and orthopaedic surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology as well as urology and among others were always referred to the Tamale Teaching Hospital in Tamale.
Since its establishment in 2015, the Wa UDS Hospital has become the most preferred health facility in the Wa Municipality and its adjoining communities following management’s decision to introduce a bouquet of specialist services in addition to the general services they provide.
The hospital is the only health facility in the whole of the Upper West Region providing endoscopy and urological services. Though the hospital is located on the Wa Campus of the UDS and is expected to serve students and lecturers as well as their families, records show that over 80 percent of the hospital’s clients come from outside the university.
Thus, with the donation of these new equipment by Rotary Club International and its partners, there is no doubt that the hospital is on its way to becoming a world-class teaching hospital in the near future.
By Savannahnewsonline.com/Philip Liebs
