La General Hospital receives medical equipment
The La General Hospital in Accra has received medical equipment donated by staff of Reige Capital, a savings and loans company.
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The items are to help the hospital deal with the outbreak of cholera in the La Municipality.
The items, worth GH¢6,785, comprised disposable gloves, adult diapers, mackintosh aprons, gallons of liquid soap, boxes of purified water and disposable gowns.
The initiative is the company’s way of assisting the hospital to enable it to respond and deal effectively with the cholera disease, considering the fact that it is one of the health institutions overburdened with cases of the disease in the Greater Accra Region.
“Step-out campaign”
In a related development, the company has also put in place measures aimed at creating public awareness of the Ebola following heightened anxiety about its outbreak in the country.
The Chief Corporate Officer (CCO) of BEIGE Capital, Mr Samuel Kwatia,under an initiative dubbed “Step-out campaign”, said the company had set in motion a mass education programme intended to help curb any likely occurrence. Besides education on Ebola, the company is also intensifying knowledge on the cholera disease.
He said the step-out campaign was directed at influencing people to effect changes in their behaviour in the face of the deadly diseases.
The CCO said the programme had received support from a number of metropolitan, municipal and district directorates of health personnel.
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Essence of programme
Mr Kwatia said the significance of the initiative was to enable the public to come by the right messages and information on the diseases in order to disabuse their minds of any misconception about the diseases.
He observed that ongoing education on Ebola and cholera was non-interactive, as it did not provide any opportunity for the public to ask questions and receive requisite information in their indigenous languages.
“More than half of the country’s population go to the markets for various needs and there is a worry over the level of understanding and knowledge about what they could do to prevent themselves from [acquiring] the diseases,” Mr Kwatia said.
He advised the public to report any cases of intense weakness, muscle pain, headache, diarrhoea and acute vomiting to hospitals for health practitioners to correctly diagnose the kind of ailment they are suffering from.