Accra, Dec 28, - The Management
of La General Hospital in collaboration with the La Dadekotopon Municipal
Assembly has inaugurated a reconstructed five-bedroom Emergency Unit to serve
the needs of patients in critical condition.
The Hospital also commissioned an
incinerator, a waste management facility and a walkway to the link the Out
Patients Department to the ward.
Dr Ebenezer Oduro Mensah, the
Medical Superintendent of the Hospital, said the emergency room was renovated
due to the unfortunate gas explosion that occurred near the Ghana International
Trade Fair Centre at La.
The incident claimed nine lives,
injured many and destroyed a number property.
He said as a result of the
disaster, the Government supported the Hospital with 60 per cent funding; while
the Hospital, through its Internally Generated Fund (IGF), contributed 40 per
cent to renovate the Emergency Unit to meet high standards.
Dr Mensah explained that the Old
Emergency Unit was in a bad state, with no privacy for patient care, a
situation where passers-by could see what was going on in the Ward.
“We felt that our clients should
have a decent place when they are brought to the hospital,” he emphasised.
He said the New Emergency Ward
could accommodate five patients, explaining that the unit was meant to
stabilise patients there and later move them to the ward for medical attention.
Dr Mensah, who is also a Family
Physician, said the Hospital had to convert the Cholera Unit, supported by the
Danish Embassy, into a General Ward to solve the problem of inadequate bed
space for patient care, as the Unit had not been used for a year.
“As a result of the conversion,
the Management of the Hospital through their IGF, constructed a walkway to link
that structure with their main hospital unit so that patients can access the
facility,” he added.
Dr Mensah said in 2016, the
incinerator for disposal of waste in the Hospital broke down and appealed to
the La Dadekotopon Municipal Assembly for support to construct an ultra-modern
waste facility for it.
He said the Hospital with support
from the Assembly constructed the multi-purpose incinerator for waste
management in the hospital, since waste disposal had been a serious challenge.
Dr Mensah said the Hospital was
also converting its store room into a physiotherapy unit, with construction
works expected to be completed in 2018.
He said the Hospital had two
physiotherapy professionals operating from a small consulting room, adding
that, the yet to be completed unit would offer physiotherapy services to
patients within the La environs so that they no longer had to go to LEKMA
Hospital or Ridge Hospital for those services.
He said Management would in 2018
concentrate on renovating old projects of the Hospital such as the mortuary and
laboratory to ensure that the facilities were in a decent state for clients
care.
Dr Mensah said the Hospital,
however, did not do well in terms of reducing maternal mortality but expressed
the hope to improve upon its care to also to reduce new born deaths.
He said the Management, as part
of its yearly programmes, had engaged the community leaders to interact with
them about their activities for 2017 and plans for 2018 and solicited feedback
from the community to factor them into their Plan of Action for next year.
Madam Gladys Tsotsoo Mann-Dedey,
the Municipal Chief Executive for the La Dadekotopon Municipal Assembly, said
she was impressed with the infrastructural development and pledged the
Assembly’s resolute support to improving health care delivery in the La
Community.
GNA
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