Your well-being my top priority – IGP to staff as they open state-of-the-art police dialysis center

General news for Monday, March 1, 2021

Source: My new GH

03/01/2021

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. James Oppong-Boanuh, stressed the importance of a healthy police department with strong police personnel to protect the life and property of citizens.

He revealed that ill police officers will not be able to carry out their duties in an efficient and professional manner if their well-being is not a priority.

It is in this context that he indicated that his administration is ready to provide the police hospital with the necessary logistics to ensure that the health of the staff is the top priority.

In a speech read on his behalf by the COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah (Ms.) during the commissioning of a state-of-the-art dialysis center at the Accra Police Hospital, the IGP noted that he There were conscious efforts to keep the staff healthy and alert every time.

“We are working to ensure that the police hospital receives the necessary logistics to meet the health needs of the staff. This is one of a kind in collaboration with other stakeholders who care about the service and its staff, ”he revealed.

Dr Bhabendra Putatunda, president of Kidney Clinics & Research Centers International, Inc. (KCRCI), the non-profit organization that provides dialysis equipment, supplies and education to underserved areas around the world praised the efforts of the COP (Ms.) Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo – Danquah and her brother-in-law Mr. Addison-Amponsah for facilitating the donation of 20 dialysis treatments to the Ghana Police Service.

“The initial request was made by Mr. Kwabena Addison-Amponsah who works at Dialysis Clinic, Inc. (DCI), the largest non-profit dialysis company in the United States. He is also a representative of the Ghana Association of Middle Tennessee. Mr. Addison-Amponsah is the brother-in-law of the COP (Ms.) Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah. Mr. Addison Amponsah contacted Mr. Ed Attrill, President of DCI, to find out if KCRCI would support Ghana Police Hospital Accra.

KCRCI is honored and proud to have been able to complete our first efforts in this mission of providing dialysis machines, education and training by our teams from the United States and India who visited Accra, Ghana from 23 until January 27, 2020.

DCOP / Dr. Ms. Mariam Tetteh-Kobboe, Medical Director and Chief of Ghana Police Hospital in Accra, was instrumental and a key figure in helping to set up this collaboration. COP / Ms. Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, Director General of Welfare of the Ghana Police Service, visited us in the United States on two occasions and she was instrumental in reassuring us that the machine would be used for the intended purpose. It also provided immigration assistance for our teams from the United States and India for the installation, testing and commissioning of the machines, ”he revealed.

He said they are committed to continue supporting Ghana Police Hospital Accra and improving the quality of care in dialysis programs, improving data collection for research purposes, providing the future equipment as needed, provide continuing education and plan to visit Accra from time to time. in time to maintain their collaboration by suggesting also providing technical and nursing training.

“We had the pleasure of meeting the nephrologist, Dr Kumashie, who will be the director of the dialysis program at the Ghana Police Hospital. We are comfortable with his expertise to manage the machines. The meeting with Deputy Medical Director Dr Ebenezer Ewusi-Emmim on a Zoom call was recently very fruitful. We discussed during the Zoom meeting our plans to improve our communication and the help we can offer to the police hospital, ”he said.