The initiative, which was with the support of the alumni association of the ATU, also involved a blood donation exercise to replenish the stock at the hospital with 44 pints of blood, as well as a clean-up exercise at the maternity ward of the facility.

Items

The items included two table top fridges and other cleaning items such as brooms, brushes, detergents and some hospital consumables.

The donation formed part of the ATU’s community outreach and awareness creation programmes.

Presenting the items, a Lecturer at the Science Laboratory Technology Department at the ATU and Chairman of the subcommittee on Community Engagement and Visibility, Kojo Ayitey said the donation was part of the outreach programme to reach out to the community through community services.

“We are donating blood to save lives and then donate these items to help the community in terms of the provision of quality healthcare and we hope they would be taken in good faith and used for their intended purpose,” he said.

The Head of Records and Transport at the Ussher Fort Hospital, Ashong Ibrahim, on behalf of management, thanked the ATU for the support, adding that the items would go a long way to boost healthcare.

He said all the items were relevant to the needs of the hospital and that money that could have been used to purchase them could be used for other pressing needs.

“All the items are useful to our work and I must say you have saved us a lot of money,” he emphasised.

For her part, the Head of the Public Relations Unit of the ATU, Fausta K. Ganaa, said the exercise was in line with the two pillars of the institutions – community engagement and visibility.

She said the support would not be the last and that it was the desire of management to do it often.

“The ATU management gives its overwhelming support to outreach and community engagement activities.

The exercise will be an annual event where appropriate places will be identified to receive such donations,” she said.