During this trip, we were privledged to work in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Tamale Teaching Hospital in Tamale, Ghana where we met pediatrician, Dr. Hasan Mumin, who leads the medical staff in the NICU. Dr. Mumin was trained in Turkey and is currently responsible for the care of the infants in the NICU and the training of medical staff. We rounded with him and his staff each morning during our stay.
Half of the NICU supplies donated went to Tamale Teaching Hospital which included diapers, intravenous tubing and supplies, infant baths, respiratory equipment and a pulse oximeter machine (which follows oxygen levels in a baby to know if additional oxygen is needed).
*******************************************************************************************************************
After all the donating, collecting, moving and shipping was done, the container arrived safely in Ghana for our arrival this January. The estimated $130,000 in medical supplies and equipment was distributed to the Ghana Health Service with plans for use at Ridge Regional Hospital in Accra and Tamale Teaching Hospital in Tamale.
We would like to thank the physicans and administrators who made this happen, including Dr.
Emmanuel Srofenyoh and Dr. Ken Sagoe as well as those at the Ghana Health Service administrators' office, notably Yaw Brobbey and Bernard Asamany.
We hope that this is the beginning of multiple containers that will be shipped to Ghana in the years to come.
In fact, we have already started collecting for the next container. If you have equipment or know a hospital that would like to particpate, please contact us at odaboro@gmail.com
Half of the NICU supplies donated went to Tamale Teaching Hospital which included diapers, intravenous tubing and supplies, infant baths, respiratory equipment and a pulse oximeter machine (which follows oxygen levels in a baby to know if additional oxygen is needed).
*******************************************************************************************************************
After all the donating, collecting, moving and shipping was done, the container arrived safely in Ghana for our arrival this January. The estimated $130,000 in medical supplies and equipment was distributed to the Ghana Health Service with plans for use at Ridge Regional Hospital in Accra and Tamale Teaching Hospital in Tamale.
We would like to thank the physicans and administrators who made this happen, including Dr.
Emmanuel Srofenyoh and Dr. Ken Sagoe as well as those at the Ghana Health Service administrators' office, notably Yaw Brobbey and Bernard Asamany.
We hope that this is the beginning of multiple containers that will be shipped to Ghana in the years to come.
In fact, we have already started collecting for the next container. If you have equipment or know a hospital that would like to particpate, please contact us at odaboro@gmail.com
Babies under much needed single phototherapy light to treat jaundice
Mike, Laurel, Dr. Hasan Mumin and mecical officer in Tamale Teaching Hospital NICU.
Mike, Laurel, Dr Mumin and medical team on rounds in NICU
Tamale Teaching Hospital NICU
Laurel Bookman and Mike Moyer with the rest of our wonderful Kybele medical team in Tamale. We miss you Andre, Ron and Manny!
Dr. Emmanuel Srofenyoh (Ridge Regional Hospital administrator and Head of OBGYN) and Mike Moyer (Odaboro Foundation President) with donated medical supplies in Accra
Tamale Teaching Hospital truck being packed to drive North.
Mike, Laurel and the drivers for the Tamale truck.
Midwives at Ridge Hospital with donated scrubs from the Mercy Hospital scrub drive and neonatal resuscitation books donated from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Pediatric Residency program
Engineers and Mike getting the donated ultrasound machine from Mercy Hospital systems up and running.
RSS Feed
