Latter-Day Saints Church supports Kpong Health Centre
The Humanitarian Services of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, in collaboration with the Ensign Global University at Kpong in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region, has presented medical equipment to the Kpong Maternity Home Project at Ayipala, a suburb of Kpong.
The items included eight hospital beds, two delivery beds, 16 hospital bedside lockers, three medical examination beds, one gynaecological examination bed, one ultrasound scan, one haematology analyser, an autoclave, a centrifuge, an incubator, one pipette, 16 bed pans, one glucometer machine, three digital BP machines and 11 funnels.
The rest are one bunsen burner, two stand examination light, one nebuliser, three infrared thermometer, a foetal doppler, three bathroom weighing scale, two height measure, two hanging scale, two- wheel chairs, five hospital privacy screen, eight office chairs, eight office tables, two vein finder, 50 waiting chairs, six lockers for staff, 12 office lockers, one patient trolley and two medical trolleys.
The project
The 60-bed capacity one-storey Kpong Maternity Home Project was started by the Manya Krobo Divisional Queen Mother of Kpong, Manye Maku I and a group of people with major support from Ensign Global University, individuals including Agnes Carboo Abodakpui, philanthropists, non-governmental organisations, civil society organisations, religious bodies, among others.
The building, which is currently ready for use, however, has no medical equipment. That prompted the donors to collaborate to do the presentation of the medical equipment, which ran into thousands of Ghana cedis.
Presenting the items to the management of the project led by Manye Maku I, the Head of Programmes of Ensign Global University, Dr Stephen Manortey, said the Church and the university saw the need to donate the items for use in the health facility because it was a service to the Kpong community and beyond.
He said the Kpong Health Centre, which was built in 1911, went through a lot of challenges in the quest to provide quality health care to the people, hence the need for the university to assist in putting up the magnificent building for the benefit of the community.
’We cannot put up this building and leave it empty, and so we reached out to the humanitarian arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and they came to donate all the medical equipment we are seeing now.
We are very grateful to the Church as well as all individuals who also helped in one way or the other.
I know from the Church’s front that they are to draw people to Christ and this is one of the ways to serve the community in achieving their aim’’, Dr Manortey added.
Dr Manortey was equally grateful to the health workers for their quality time spent with the patients, stressing “we pray the items would serve the purpose it was meant for in order to offer good and quality health care to the people of Kpong and its environs”.
Gratitude
Manye Maku, on behalf of her project committee members, expressed her profound gratitude to the two institutions that collaborated and presented the medical equipment to make their work complete.
She said the facility would, in the near future, be expanded to a polyclinic that would serve a lot of purposes.
The queenmother praised the committee members, including Abdul-Razak Mohammed Zabado (Secretary), Richard Agbalenyo, Daniel Happy Adema, Fusenatu Mohammed, Okailey Armah, Daniel Kweku Wormenor, Doris Ladonu, Regina Tettey and Florence Ladonu, who stood solidly behind her during the project execution.
