GBARNGA, March 27 (LINA) – Three public health facilities in Bong County – Bong Mines Hospital in Foamah District, C.B. Dunbar Hospital in Gbarnga and Phebe Referral Hospital in Suakoko District – have benefited from assorted medical supplies for the fight against the deadly coronavirus.
The materials include needles, boxes of gloves, cartoons of chloride, oxygen sets, lubricants and cartoons of surgical materials, among others.
The donation is a philanthropic gesture by Bong County Senator Henrique Flomo Tokpa made through a senior office staff of the Senator, Mr. Stephen Jeffery who said the gesture was aimed at empowering the health facilities to fight the spread of the coronavirus disease in the country.
For their parts, Bong Mines Hospital Medical Director, Dr. Francis Obeyasi; CB Dunbar Medical Director Madam Emma Geah and Phebe Referral Hospital Administrator, Rev. Victor Padmore, lauded Senator Tokpah for the donation, describing it as “timely,” especially amid the current health crisis in the country.
The health officials, meanwhile, promised to use the materials to help provide good healthcare delivery to citizens in the county and called on other county stakeholders to emulate the good example of the senator by providing more medical support to health institutions in the county.
In a related development, two Bong County lawmakers, Representative Edward Karfia and Senator Henry Yallah recently donated assorted material supplies worth a little over US$200 to Phebe Referral Hospital Maternal Waiting Home in Suakoko District.
The materials, which included15 bags of 25kg rice was donated to the hospital by the lawmakers through the Political Affairs Officer in the office of Rep. Karfia, Mr. Lawrence Flomo, to help alleviate the constraints faced by the center.
Receiving the items, the Head of Phebe Hospital Maternal Waiting Home, Madam Viola Markor, disclosed that there are pregnant women who come from faraway and overstay at the center, thereby making it very difficult to provide food for them.
According to Madam Markor, some pregnant women stay at the Phebe Maternal Waiting Home for two to three months without adequate food, so the center was seeking other avenues for funds that will aid them up to delivery.
She called on other lawmakers to help provide more aid to the maternal waiting home, adding it is the center for all maternal waiting homes in Bong County.
When pregnant women with suspected complications reach seven to eight months, they are advised by health workers to go to a maternal waiting home to avoid home delivery which could pose serious risk for them or the unborn child. This is to help cut maternity mortality which is high in rural parts of the country.
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