President Akufo-Addo has donated his November salary as his contribution to a fund set up at the National Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Burns Centre at the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital.
President Akufo-Addo made this donation on Wednesday, December 5, 2018, when he commissioned a new facility for the National Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Burns Centre (NRPSBC), on day-2 of his 3-day tour of the Greater Accra Region.
The centre was established to cater for patients suffering from acute burns and its complications, birth defects including cleft lip and palate and hand anomalies, injuries to nerves, tendons and blood vessels, complex wounds, and skin cancers.
The President expressed his gratitude to the late Prof. Jack Mustardé and the Charity he founded, the International Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Project, now called Resurge Africa, who collaborated with government and other stakeholders to establish the Accident and Burns Centre.
In order to facilitate the rapid establishment of this new specialty, the Centre was set up as one of the semi-autonomous Centres of Excellence within the Korle-bu Teaching Hospital, with direct support from the Ministry of Health.
Over the last 21 years, the NRPSBC has proven to be a worthwhile investment, recording over 140,000 out-patient visits, over 15,000 admissions and has successfully carried out over 25,000 surgical operations. This excludes surgeries performed by its staff off-site.
Thus far, the NRPSBC has been actively collaborating with NGOs, churches, corporate entities and other health facilities to improve access to reconstructive surgery services in underserved regions throughout the country.
President Akufo-Addo thanked the Ghanaian team of reconstructive surgeons and support staff, led by Dr. Opoku Ware Ampomah, for their dedication, sacrifice and contribution to healthcare delivery in the country, as well as Dr. Martyn Webster and Dr. Stuart Watson, from Scotland, for supporting the capacity building efforts of the Centre.
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The drone deal is not what Ghana needs. Yesterday it was reported that the President had donated his monthly salary to the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital for rehabilitation of the unit, a teaching hospital, in Accra, the capital of Ghana. The Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit was in a colossal mess per the President. There are drugs, supplies, everything available for the kind of procedures that are conducted in such a unit, but it is non-functional. We can extrapolate to those same remote areas and say confidently, health facilities/centers, the various units of health facilities, the equipment to store medicines and blood in these facilities, and for surgical and medical procedures and interventions in an emergency as well as, the specialist personnel and other staff needed for the effective delivery of those services is not available. We are sorry about the death of Father of the Vice President in 2002, because he needed blood and there was none available at the time. Was it the case Tamale Hospital did not have the equipment to store the blood in their blood bank, they didn't have his blood group, there was no family member who could donate his/her blood to him in that particular situation at that material moment or maybe, for religious reasons, he refused the blood transfusion? And this is Tamale Teaching Hospital. It has since been upgraded, which suggests to me, maybe at the time such things did not exist. So how much more the rural or remote area? You talked about a maternal mother in labour. In such a remote area, do we have qualified OBS/GYN specialists in such facilities if they even exist, and an ambulance to transfer such a patient from their home to the hospital or to a much better equipped facility in case of such an emergency? Its traditional birth attendants. Are they the ones we are relying on to intervene in such situations in a remote area with no better equipped health facility or personnel? How would a drone delivering whatever it is we claim they would be delivering, help in such a situation? Clearly, we cannot defend the indefensible in the matter of this so-called drone delivery because it is operational in Rwanda. Remember, Rwanda went through a very brutal civil war, leading to a significant destruction of their infrastructure, which may lend itself to such a situation and would work for them. That does not mean that is what we need. According to the GHS Boss he said this system was not to replace the existing supply chain but to complement it. Well, if it is not, and what we have is working, then let's address the issue of, for example, the dysfunction of the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit in Korle Bu Teaching hospital in Accra, in ensuring the delivery of efficient and effective health services for our peoples in every corner of the country, by ensuring the facilities exist, the units work, personnel are available, and in emergencies, there are efficient transport mechanisms to refer patients to much better equipped health facilities, because at this moment that is what we need. And for the anti-snake serum for people bitten by snakes, it should be stored in the facility to be administered immediately to the bite patient and not transported 80 or 100 km away by a drone. Diabetic emergency patients should have dextrose infusion available immediately to be infused to the patient, after maybe drinking a cup of coke or dissolving 2 cubes of sugar at home before being transported to the facility. Accident victims should be attended to in functioning ICU's and surgical theaters with electricity supply available to the facilities and medications for surgical procedures to provide antibiotic coverage, available right there and then when they are brought in, to initiate life-saving interventions. This is a deal that cannot be defended.
His salary is too small...he should rather donate all his fat per diems for the whole year of the whole term to Korle Bu. That will be meaningful. Ex. President Rawllings donated a whole cash price or award to help establish the UDS in Tamale. That is what l am talking about. Shame you people
He ate food even in opposition, so don't worry wai.
may be air
.. so what will he eat this month