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As part of efforts to mitigate the rate of pre-term cases and child mortality in the country, CalBank in partnership with UNICEF and General Electric (Ghana) has handed over a Newborn Baby Care Unit to management of the New Tafo Government Hospital in the Eastern Region.

The facility, equipped with three units of infant warmers, three units of LED phototherapy, and three units of Bag and Mask Resuscitator at the hospital's Neonatal care is to improve healthcare delivery.

Addressing a gathering at a short inaugural ceremony to hand over the facility, the Managing Director of CalBank, Mr. Frank Adu Junior, said the gesture was part of the Bank's corporate social responsibility towards lending support to improve quality health delivery in the country.

“This beautiful thing we are seeing here today is as a result of commitment and dedication of management and staff of CalBank to ensuring that Ghanaians enjoy the best healthcare delivery. The gesture, which is part of our corporate social responsibility as an organization is in response to a request from the Ghana Health Service through the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) to procure Life Care systems to manage pre-term cases and by extension, mitigate infant mortality rates in Ghana”.

“Statistics available from the Ghana Health Service indicated that, about 80 percent of death of babies reported could be preventable with the right mix of basic care facilities, and these alarming statistics however motivated the staff of the bank to contribute 50 percent of the money required, while the bank supported with the remaining 50 percent for the procurement of the facility”.

He assured CalBank's commitment to responsibly, effectively and decisively support the Ghanaian community to enhance quality health delivery.

The Medical Superintendent of the New Tafo Government Hospital, Dr. Joseph Kojo Tambil expressed his appreciation to CALBANK LIMITED, UNICEF and General Electric (Ghana) for their gesture and called on government and corporate institutions to help construct new children’s ward for the hospital to enable them provide better service for the children.

According to him, the current children’s ward is very small and cannot contain all the patients; therefore they are sometimes forced to keep two sick children on one bed.

This Dr. Tambil said does not auger well for the children as they can infect each other with their illness/disease.