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Sunyani Municipal hospital needs incubators urgently

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the Sunyani Municipal Hospital needs five incubators, fire flyers and transcutaneous bilirubin metres urgently to prevent newborn deaths in the Municipality.

Mrs Christiana Ayamga, nurse in-charge of the Unit explained only one of the two incubators was functioning, though the unit continued to report cases of new born morbidities, and appealed for Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Machines (CPAP) as well.

She told Sky News in an interview in Sunyani on Thursday, the unit recorded 10 cases of asphyxia and nine cases of prematurity in the last month.

Mrs Ayamga made the appeal when Madam Justina Owusu-Banahene, the Bono Regional Minister visited the hospital to assess operations of the newly constructed maternity block and to interact with pregnant and nursing mothers.

There was however, only one baby at the NICU placed under an improvised CPAP machine that enabled the baby to obtain the required amount of pressure to survive.

Mad Owusu-Banahene expressed discomfort about the situation, and appealed to non-governmental organisations, philanthropists and religious and corporate bodies to come to the aid of the hospital.

She commended the health officials for their selfless services and asked them to build healthy relationships with the mothers and clients saying, healthy relationships with clients would greatly aid their treatment processes.

Dr Helena Alabomo Aboakai, the Acting Medical Superintendent of the Hospital, expressed appreciation to the regional minister for the visit, and appealed to her to use her political influence to lobby for incubators and related medical devices for the NICU.

Skynewsroom