GHANAIAN-CANADIAN NURSES ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO– DONATES EQUIPMENT TO ANOTHER GHANAIAN HOSPITAL.

In its effort to help deliver improved and efficient health care to Ghanaians, the Toronto based Ghanaian-Canadian Nurses Association of Ontario (GCNAO), has donated a sophisticated EKG/ECG machine to the Pantang Mental Health Hospital near Accra, Ghana on September 17, 2009. This is the second donation to a Ghanaian hospital in the last four years.

The GCNAO's first donation occurred in 2006, when it supplied Okomfo Anokye Hospital, Kumasi with medical equipments for its paediatric units. Speaking in appreciation of the gift, Dr. Anna Puklo-Dzadey Pantang's medical director assured the donors that the equipment will be put to good use, serving both the mental health hospital and the adjoining physical health Outpatient Department.

She also informed the GCNAO representative that nursing staff would be trained to operate the equipment in order to preserve its functioning. Dr. Dogbatse, medical officer of the Patang Physical and Outpatient Department also expressed his appreciation, appealing to GCNAO for an ultrasound machine, as none was currently available to serve expectant mothers in the community. Later, Dr. Anna Puklo-Dzadey presented Mr. Obed Adore with a letter of appreciation.

Mr. Obed Komla Adore, a registered nurse and treasurer to GCNAO being thanked with a handshake by Dr. Dogbatse, the medical officer of the Patang Physical OPD. Standing to the immediate right of Dr. Dogbatse is Dr. Anna Puklo-Dzadey- medical director of the hospital. Others in the picture include Mrs. Margaret Patterson (in purple sash) the Superintendent of the Pantang Nursing Training College and other senior staff of the hospital.

Development / Ghana / Africa / Modernghana.com