The Adidome Government Hospital is not in good shape and not conducive for both health workers and patients. This is especially so with regard to the maternity block.

The nurses have therefore appealed to government and the appropriate authorities to help fix the maternity block and help improve on the equipment at the facility to make it more comfortable and better for the nursing mothers and their babies as well as the nurses. 

The appeal was made when MTN Ghana Foundation presented hampers to babies born on Christmas day at the Hospital and the various hospitals in the Volta and Oti regions.

According to the nurse in charge of the Adidome Hospital, Charlotte Mamatah, the facility is in a deplorable state and needs urgent attention from the government to help them work more effectively and efficiently and also make the nursing mothers more comfortable while giving life.

She however thanked the MTN Foundation led by the Head of Corporate Affairs, Mrs. Geogina Asare Fiagbenu for their kind gesture towards the nursing mothers and their babies. 

The Head of Corporate Affairs noted that the MTN Foundation has over the past 10 years helped put smiles on the faces of nursing mothers and their babies born on Christmas day to honour them for bringing life despite the challenges faced during childbirth.

Mrs. Fiagbenu said, it is necessary to honour mothers not only on Christmas day, but at all times in appreciation of their love towards humanity.

She stated that, at MTN Ghana Foundation, their aim is to help improve on the health delivery system in the country as government alone cannot do everything.

According to her, over the years, MTN has helped construct a lot of health centres, improve on the old ones and built new ones to help the various facilities work more effectively and efficiently.

Mrs. Geogina Asare Fiagbenu urged authorities of health centres who need help to write directly to the MTN Foundation requesting for help for their facilities and it would be granted.

She reiterated MTN's commitment to making sure that health as well as education needs of the people are worked on to improve on their lives. 

She urged mothers to take care of their babies and provide them with the needed help to grow into youthful citizens. 

Beneficiary mothers were grateful for MTN for their donation and hoped that more of such gifts would come often. 

At Ho, the MTN team led by Mawuli Katahena presented the hampers to babies in the major hospitals in the regional capital. Similar activities were held in Oti Region and across the country.