Ghana: VIVO Energy Ghana donates surgical equipment to KBTH

An oil marketing compa­ny, VIVO Energy Ghana has donated assorted surgical equipment to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) in Accra.

They included a smoke detector and smoke evacuator with acces­sories and a trolley.

The Corporate Communica­tions Manager of Vivo Energy Ghana, Mrs Shirley Tony Kum, said the equipment was to evacu­ate smoke emitting during surgical operations which was harmful to the health of both doctors and patients.

She added that the donation would help to deliver quality healthcare as far as surgical proce­dures were concerned.

The corporate communications manager stated that the dona­tion was also to help support the breast cancer campaign and pledged more donations.

Mrs Shirley Kum said that the organisation usually set aside money to support developmental projects and needy people for the betterment of the country and advised health officials at the hospital to take good care of the equipment.

She used the occasion to cau­tion drivers to “stop, think and drive” during the Yuletide.

The General Surgeon at the Breast Surgery Unit of the hospital, Mrs Josephine Nsaful, said the medical equipment were very much needed due to the fact that the electrosurgical equipment used at the hospital emitted a lot of smoke which was a health hazard to all the­atre staff.

With regards to breast can­cer, she said that breast cancer was not about spirituality but a physical one which could be cured with early detection, urging women to report any early signs of the disease to the hospital.

She said that the donation was “a great start to future col­laborations with VIVO Energy Ghana” and that the medical equipment would be very help­ful in breast surgeries.

The Head of Surgery, KBTU, Professor J.E Mensah, said that the medical equip­ment would be very helpful to elude smoke that caused a disconcerting situation during surgeries.