A philanthropist, Freda Priscilla Hehetor-Agyemang has donated some medical equipment and consumables to the Volta Regional Hospital in Hohoe in the Hohoe Municipality. 

The kind gesture to help the hospital to meet the demands of clients.

The equipment included pulse oximeters, infrared thermometers, glucometers, sphygmomanometers, stripes, children's cuffs, batteries and lancets. 

Madam Hehetor-Agyemang explained that she undertook the benevolence exercise learning about the state of equipment at the hospital when her deceased father was receiving care before his demise. 

“My dad passed away in 2019, I was here around that time. When we came to the hospital, the machines that they had really and truly were not in good shape at all. The blood pressure machine was actually rusted”, she said. 

Being a health practitioner in the United Kingdom, she explained that the inability to use the right equipment at a health facility would derail the delivery of quality healthcare. 

“We are somehow neglecting our patients in Ghana so it is quite very important that we have all these things to take care of our patients”, she explained. 

The Hohoe Municipal Director of Health Services, Charles Azagba, said the items donated would help manage non-communicable diseases in the enclave. 

Meanwhile, authorities of the Volta Regional Hospital in Hohoe in the Hohoe Municipality have indicated the need for a facelift of the facility’s infrastructure, which they said has outlived its usefulness.

The then-Hohoe Municipal Hospital established in the early 1950s was upgraded to the Volta Regional Hospital in 2019.

The hospital witnessed a change of name with no major facelift provided, in terms of infrastructure.

The 200-bed facility which has about 10 medical specialists serves northern Volta and Oti region. 

The Medical Director of the Volta Regional Hospital. Dr. Habib Ahmed, lamented the state of the infrastructure of the hospital, stressing it was outmoded and needed some “uplifting”. 

He indicated the facility however has enough equipment and human resources to serve the purpose of a regional hospital. 

He said the facility was provided an oxygen plant and a laboratory by the government and lauded the Korean Foundation for International Healthcare (KOFIH) for refurbishing the accident and emergency unit. 

“We have a number of things that we can act as a regional hospital, we still need more anyway”, Dr. Ahmed said.