Dr Aboagye donates state-of-the-art respirator to Agogo Hospital
The Director of Health Promotion at the Ghana Health Service, Dr Da Costa Aboagye, has donated a state-of-the-art high capacity flow respiratory humidifier oxygenator and assorted Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) worth $25,000 to the Agogo Presbyterian Hospital.
The donation was in collaboration with the head of mission at the Diaspora African Forum, Dr Erieka Bennett and Gee Medical Supplies of South Africa.
Presenting the items at a short ceremony at the Hospital at Asante Akyem Agogo on Sunday, Dr Aboagye said the donation was a private donation from him and his partners dedicated to show immense appreciation of his mother, Mrs Justicia Frimpong–Aboagye, who worked at the Agogo hospital for over 43 years as a midwife and his senior brother, Dr William Arhin Thompson who retired on September 12, 2021 after serving for over 30 years as a Surgeon and Medical Director of the hospital.
According to him, he was born at the hospital, schooled and lived in Agogo and Kumawu until he travelled to the United Kingdom for further studies.
He further noted that by the grace of God, he had a lot of international and local networks which he would leverage to help Agogo and Kumawu municipalities respectively.
“Today’s private donation is one of such gestures secured with my partners through my international and local networks to help save lives in the Agogo and Kumawu areas,” he stated.
He charged the doctors and nurses to use the equipment at the Intensive Care Unit not only to help reduce the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) deaths but to save lives of patients who would need oxygen in other critical respiratory illnesses.
Dr Aboagye said that severe and critically ill patients often have hypoxemia and dyspnea and proper respiratory support treatment was required.
“High-flow nasal oxygen therapy (HFNC), like the high capacity flow respiratory humidifier oxygenator has greater advantages over conventional Oxygen therapy,” he added.
The Acting Medical Director, Dr Kennedy Opoku, who received the items on behalf of the hospital management and staff thanked Dr Abaogye, and his partners for the items donated and promised to use them to save lives.
BY VIVIAN ARTHUR
