Mother, baby unit for Margaret Marquart Hospital

The Margaret Marquart Catholic Hospital at Kpando in the Volta Region has been provided with a new Mother and Baby Unit to help provide quality health care for pregnant women and babies within the area.

The unit was constructed by a former Chief of Staff and Minister for the Interior, Mr Prosper D. K Bani, as part of efforts to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in the area.

At a short ceremony to hand over the facility, Mr Bani narrated how his mother was delivered of a baby at the Margaret Marquart Catholic Hospital 40 years ago but never returned home with the baby.

"My mother gave birth to a baby in this hospital and came home alone without the baby due to poor medical facilities, " he recounted.

He urged the authorities of the hospital to maintain the facility to serve its purpose, and pledged his commitment to support the establishment of other important projects of the hospital.

Maternal deaths

The Administrator of the hospital, Mr Emmanuel Hanson Torde, expressed gratitude to Mr Bani and said “this project will go a long way to protect the lives of women in the area.”

“It will also help the mothers to receive the needed treatment after birth together with their babies,” he added.

Mr Torde disclosed that the hospital currently needed a reliable ambulance, rehabilitation of the theatre block, renovation of the emergency and X-ray blocks, as well as the completion of the patient’s relative lodge.

According to Mr Torde, the hospital would remain committed to providing quality health care and gave an assurance that measures would be put in place to maintain the facility.

Fundraising

The occasion was also used to raise funds towards the purchase of 20 baby cots, five beds and a radiant warmer.

The International Central Gospel Church, Adentan branch, also donated one baby incubator and a phototherapy unit to the hospital.