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By Rashid Mbugri, GNA
Tamale, April
25, GNA – Kokrokoo Charities Foundation, a non-governmental organization, under
Project 100, donated two incubators worth $ 20,000 to Tamale on Thursday
University Hospital (TTH) to help improve the delivery of health care for
Premature babies.
It was also for
help reduce infant mortality badociated with premature and premature births in the
Tamale Metropolis.
The kokrokoo
Project 100 of the Charities Foundation aims to buy and give 100
incubators at hospitals across the country to reduce the high rate of infants
mortality at the end of this year.
Mr. Kwame
Sefa-Kayi, founder of the Kokrokoo Charities Foundation, said the gesture was a
to support health institutions in their efforts to provide
provision of health care in the country as a way of giving back to society to
make mothers and their babies smile.
He said
"The reason for this is mainly to give back to society, especially
those who can not afford incubators because the lack of incubators is one of
challenges in health facilities. "
Mr. Sefa-Kayi, who is also a broadcaster, stated that
under Project 100, the Foundation would give a total of 30
incubators at various health facilities in the northern sector of
country.
He said the
The Foundation had already donated incubators to the Upper West and would
from the Northern Region to the Upper East Region to donate some of the
incubators at health facilities there.
He encouraged
TTH management takes care of incubators to save lives
premature and premature babies.
Dr. Alhbadan
Abdul Mumin, Senior Pediatrician and Head of the Pediatric Center of the
TTH reported last year that its Intensive Care Unit for Newborns had registered approximately 2,300
babies with about 30 percent of the total number being premature babies with
some weighing less than 2.5 kg.
Dr. Mumin said
most of these babies stayed in the hospital for more than 30 days and most of the time
twinned in incubators because of their limited number and expressed their gratitude to the
Kokrokoo Charities Foundation for support.
He appealed to
from other organizations to help provide more incubators to the TTH to improve
provision of health care.
GNA
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