Africa-Press – Ghana. The Kokrokoo Charities Foundation has resolved to commit resources to improve paediatric healthcare in the country, Mr Kwame Sefa Kayi, the Founder has assured.
The objective, he said, would reduce to the barest minimum the incidence of infant mortality as the nation sought to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) three by 2030.
It is therefore assisting various health facilities across the country with incubators to provide efficient health care delivery for the survival of premature babies.
Mr Kayi made this known at a short ceremony to install two incubators worth $20,000.00 at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH) for premature babies to have the best possible environment and continuous monitoring to grow soundly.
The medical equipment is designed to serve as a second womb to provide the optimal conditions that protect a baby delivered prematurely for its total development.
He said the donation to the Hospital brought to 44, the number of incubators so far installed by the Foundation in health facilities across the country. The Kokrokoo Charities has projected to donate 100 incubators to various hospitals nationwide to promote infant healthcare.
The donation was sponsored by the KGL Foundation through a collaboration with the Kokrokoo Charites Foundation to make a positive impact on society by improving healthcare delivery.
KGL Foundation was set up as a single-purpose vehicle to drive all corporate social responsibility activities of the Group following international standards and best practices.
Mr Annorbali -Sarpei Nii Ankonu, the Programs Manager of KGL Foundation, said the Group was committed to allocating a significant percentage of its operating revenue to support corporate social interventions across Ghana. He said that KGL Foundation had teamed up with the Kokrokoo Charities’ project to source and deliver incubators to health centres across the country.
Dr Eric Kofi Ngyedu, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the CCTH, receiving the donation thanked the donors for the kind gesture and appealed to individuals and organisations for more incubators to help save the lives of preterm babies. He assured the donors that the Hospital would take good care of the equipment to serve the purpose for which they were procured.
Mrs Afua Ofori Attakorah, the Deputy Director of Nursing at the Child Health Department of the CCTH commended the donors on their efforts to solve critical health challenges in the country and urged benevolent organisations and individuals to emulate the gesture.
She further expressed gratitude to the donors and noted that the donation was timely to help save lives of preterm babies and give hope to mothers saying the incubators currently at the facility was not enough.
Mr Yaw Esuon Arthur, a Bio-Medical Engineer, and Mr Dennis Adu Twum, Programmes Manager of Kokrokoo Charities, during the installation of the incubators, trained the nurses at the maternity ward on its correct usage.
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