Donkodo Family Association, a non-profitable organization made up of residents of Donkodo, a suburb of Cape Coast have contributed to renovate the washrooms, children's ward, female's, and male's wards of the Cape Coast Metropolitan Hospital situated in the Central Region in celebration of the 2024 Oguaa Fetu Afahye.

The association amid this has also donated assorted medical equipments, consumables, and medical items worth thousands of Ghana cedis to the medical facility.

Items donated by the association include hospital beds, veronica buckets, bedsheets, pillowcases, mini polytanks, wheelchairs, screens, stretchers, toilet rolls, football for children, bin buckets, plastics for washing, stethoscopes, virolizers, mini fiber optic otoscopes, just to mention a few.

The benevolent act by the association follows the initial sorry state of the renovated medical wards, amid its high demand in patient treatment.

Kweku Bernard, General Secretary of the association recounted the group to have initially sited the poor washroom facilities of the hospital upon plans to donate to the hospital, which later got them to upgrade the living standard of the children's ward, female's, and male's wards of the facility together with the washrooms, having noticed it equally requires a facelift.

He revealed the association to have spent about GH¢800,000 on renovating the aforementioned wards of the hospital as well as items donated to the facility.

The association's General Secretary, however, beseeched authorities of the hospital to take absolute care of the donated items, taking into consideration a structured maintenance culture of the medical facility.

Madam Caroline Abgodza, Nurse Manager of the Cape Coast Metro  Hospital who on behalf of the medical facility received the donated items, expressed appreciation to the Donkodo Family Association for its timely donation and renovations.

She further outlined the medical facility's dying need of a washing machine, medical equipments, and new infrastructures, since staffs are compelled to risk their lives working under dilapidated structures.

Hence, called on government and the corporate world to come to the aid of the hospital with either a renovation of its old buildings, a washing machine or perhaps a donation of required hospital equipments.

The Donkodo Association has again assured to renovate the emergency unit of the medical facility which caters for thousands of individuals both in and outside Cape Coast, following its current state and lack of essential medical amenities, considering the unit's intensiveness to emergency medical cases.

Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan