April 02, 2025
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Ghana's Second Lady, H.E. Hajia Samira Bawumia has commissioned an ultramodern surgical theatre for the Elmina Polyclinic in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Constituency in the Central Region on Wednesday.
Commissioning of the surgical theatre forms part of the Second Lady's two-day tour in the Central Region to canvas vote for her husband Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Ghana's Vice President and flagbearer for the ruling New Patriotic Party in the 2024 general elections slated for December 7.
The fully equipped Elmina Polyclinic surgical theatre which is named after Nana Kodwo Conduah VI, Paramount Chief of the Edina Traditional Area encompasses an operation room, recovery room, an anesthetist room, a holding area, scrub-up area, a room for doctors, a room for nurses, and a sluice room.
Commissioning of the Elmina Polyclinic surgical theatre witnessed revered personalities like the Paramount Chief of the Central Regional Minister, Hon. Justina Marigold Assan, the Edina Traditional Area, the NPP Parliamentary Candidate for KEEA, Mr. Percyval Quaicoe, Hon. Samuel Ebo Appiah, MCE for KEEA, NPP Parliamentary Candidate for Cape Coast North Constituency among many others.
The Second Lady in her address at the commissioning durbar noted that the long awaited facility is not just a building, but a testament to the NPP government's committment to the health and wellbeing of the Ghanaian citizenry and hoped that the new facility improves the quality of service and infrastructure, population and staffs in the immediate future and years to come.
She recounted the Elmina Polyclinic to have over the years served as a beacon of hope to many in the community, providing essential medical services. However, the lack of a dedicated surgical facility has hindered its ability to offer comprehensive surgical care to its people.
Highlighting that with the addition of the surgical theatre, won't only allow the polyclinic to offer surgeries that were previously referred to other facilities but will also reduce the burden on the country's healthcare system for patients to get best care at all times.
Medical Superintendent for the Elmina Polyclinic, Dr. Felix Darbbey asserted that with the support of the government through the Municipal Assembly, a surgical theatre has been established and well equipped to cater to the needs of the people of KEEA and beyond.
He added that over the years, pregnant women who needed emergency surgery in other to save mother and baby had to be referred either to the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital or the UCC Hospital which has unfortunately led to some terrible outcomes for mothers and babies in theΒ District, thus the timely establishment of the surgical facility at the polyclinic.
Dr. Darbbey further observed that with the help of the commissioned surgical facility, the Elmina Polyclinic won't only perform caesarean sections on maternity patients there but will also provide diverse surgical services like fibroid surgeries, hernia and the likes.
Nana Kodwo Conduah VI, Paramount Chief of the Edina Traditional Area expressed his outmost appreciation to authorities of the Elmina Polyclinic for naming the facility's surgical theatre after him and advised nurses of the polyclinic to eschew every form of unprofessional conducts and the behaviour of attending to their phones while patients are left unattended to.
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Principal Public Health Officer and the Head of Disease Control in the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abrem (KEEA) Constituency in the Central Region, Mr. Charles Bonney Ghartey has charged pastors, traditional healers, and prayer camps in Ghana to consult health professionals in their treatment of skin infected diseases.
He enlightened that not every detected skin disease is spiritually inclined as widely perceived in the country by most pastors and herbalists.
Mr. Charles Bonney Ghartey stated this at a day training for Chiefs and Health Volunteers on skin Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) on Tuesday, July 30, 2024 at Ntranoa, a suburb of Elmina in the KEEA Constituency by the Hope for Youth and Women Organization (HYWO), a non-governmental organization based in Elmina.
The training forms part of activities for a two-year project titled βMobilizing Community Efforts to Contribute to the Achievement of the Ghana Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Master Plan 2021-2025 in Controlling, Eliminating, and Eradicating Skin NTDs in Three Districts Across Ghana.β To wit, has the KEEA Municipality as one of the three project districts.
The project is funded by the Anesvad Foundation Spain, having the Pan African Organization for Research and Protection of Violence on Women and Children (PAORP-VWC) as its lead implementing partner, with the Ghana Health Services and Target Communities posing as collaborating partners to the widely hailed project.
The Public Health Officer emphasized that since the human skin turns to reveal every disease believed to be spiritually inclined, provides the need for pastors and prayer camps in the country to liaise withΒ health professionals in getting lasting solution to NTD cases they often deal with like Lymphatic Filariasis (Elephantiasis), Yaws, leprosy, Buruli Ulcer, onchocerciasis, trachoma among others.
Dorcas Awotwe, CEO for HYWO in an interview with Sompa TV's Eric Annan, highlighted NTDs to be diseases whose casualties usually have little or no knowledge as to what they are suffering from, let alone the money to be used in curing themselves.
She bemoaned the fact that persons living with skin Neglected Tropical Diseases, often suffer stigmatization which forces them to distance themselves from the public to remain indoors, only to end up spreading the communicable disease to close relatives.
The HYWO CEO recounted that for this reason,Β the skin Neglected Tropical Diseases project has been introduced to sensitize the general public that NTDs are curable with potent medications scattered across health facilities in the country.
She appealed on the public to discard all forms of trolling on affected NTD patients, as that sort to escalate dangers associated with their diseases.
Nana Kweku Ntsen V, the Chief of Ntranoa and Guantuahene of the Edina Traditional Council, extolled organizers for the programme which he relayed to have helped in the reduction of NTDs among his people, having had Ntranoa selected as one of the seven (7) communities in KEEA were the project is been witnessed.
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