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The Goaso Government Hospital is the only major referral health facility in the Ahafo Region. Despite being the only major referral hospital, the infrastructure is dire because some facilities are inadequate or non-existent.
Additionally, the 120-bed hospital, which attends to patients in the region and some parts of the Bono and Western North regions, lacks some medical equipment and machines to attend to patients.
The Clinical Coordinator at the hospital, Dr Prince Kofi Dwomoh-Kesse, told the Daily Graphic that the Emergency Unit and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) had inadequate spaces and lacked equipment and machines to attend to patients.
Also, the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), a specialised department that provides constant, close monitoring and advanced care for patients with severe, life-threatening illnesses and injuries, lacks some life-saving equipment to make the unit vibrant and effective.Aside from that, the facility offers insufficient accommodation for both health personnel and patients' relatives, who are caring for their loved ones.
Dr Dwomoh-Kesse disclosed these when he received medical items worth GH?14,350 from microfinance company, ASA Savings and Loans Ltd., on behalf of the hospital.
He said the items, which included hospital beds, a Nebuliser, 100 pieces of plaster rolls, Blood Pressure (BP) monitors, 20 boxes of examination gloves, 12 gauze rolls and 30 pieces of absorbent cotton, underscored the need for the government to invest in the hospital's infrastructure to reduce its deficit.
He explained that investing in the hospital could help it attain regional status to provide secondary healthcare services. He added that it was a major regional health facility that treated different illnesses and beyond.
Dr Dwomoh-Kesse appealed to other institutions to support the hospital in expanding its infrastructure and stocking it with medical equipment and machines to improve healthcare delivery and meet the increasing hospital demand.
Some of the medical items
"We need accommodation for patients' relatives who are providing care for them during their admission," he said.
He also called for the construction of staff accommodation to reduce the huge accommodation gap at the facility.
Dr Dwomoh-Kesse expressed the hope that the items donated would help the hospital to enhance its health delivery in the area.
"Getting these essential items, including beds, is necessary for the treatment of patients," he stated.
Dr Dwomoh-Kesse thanked the ASA Savings and Loans Ltd for their constant donations to the hospital, adding, "This is not the first time the bank has supported this hospital.
They have been supporting us during our annual breast cancer screening exercises."
He urged ASA to continue to partner the hospital to provide first-class health services to the people in the area.
He promised that the hospital's management would ensure the donated items were put to good use to benefit several clients.
The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Sustainability Officer at the ASA Savings and Loans Ltd, Lily Opoku Mensah, told the Daily Graphic that the items were presented to promote quality healthcare delivery at Goaso and its adjoining communities.
"We are giving back to society because we transact business in society. It's something we do every year.
"We select some critical and deprived hospitals to do our donations to serve society better," she said.
Mrs Mensah appealed to the facility's management to ensure proper maintenance and efficient use of the equipment.
She disclosed that ASA Savings and Loans Ltd and the hospital would embark on breast cancer screening exercises next month and called on the public, including men, to patronise the exercise.
