The Medical Superintendent of the Maternal and Child Health Hospital in Kumasi, Dr Annie Opoku, has appealed to government for assistance for the facility to enable it to provide efficient services. According to him, the health centre needs additional 40 hospital beds, a theatre block with maternal and baby Unit, blood bank, modern x-ray machine and an ambulance. Dr Opoku was speaking at the inauguration of a GH¢6,000 mechanized borehole for the hospital, in Kumasi on Thursday. The project was initiated by a former Chief Executive of Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, Lieutenant Colonel (rtd) Opuni Mensah and funded by a French student, Miss Rainbow Planche, with support from her family. She commended benefactors of the project, saying it would help end the perennial water shortage at the hospital Dr Kwesi Awudzi Yeboah, Kumasi Metropolitan Director of Ghana Health Service (GHS), said the provision of potable water would help reduce child mortality and morbidity at the hospital. Meanwhile, Mrs Theresa Otuo Acheampong, Deputy Director of Nursing at Ashanti Regional Administration of GHS, called on individuals and non-governmental organizations to support health centres to enable them provide good quality health care. Source: GNA