BY : DARI KWABENA MATHEW (+233552376423)
It is becoming extremely difficult for the St. John of God Hospital at Duayaw Nkwanta in the Tano North Municipality of the Ahafo Region to handle most neonatal cases.
This is a result of limited space, incubators and other vital equipment used in addressing the increasing number of premature babies and newly-borns with neonatal complications.
With the challenges facing the Neonatal Unit, the Deputy in charge of the unit, Jacqueline Nwinkom Dapila has said the facility has no option than to resort to the use of non-standardized procedures to manage the situation.
According to Mrs.Jacqueline,they have limited space there. With the incubators, because there are not enough of them, they sometimes have to put preterms in one incubator which is not the best. So sometimes, there are cross infections.
They also don’t have a radiant warmer there. Sometimes the babies come with low temperature and because they do not have that, they improvise.
The St. John of God Hospital is a major referral facility in the Tano North Municipality of the Ahafo Region.
It serves over 300 communities.
The facility also attends to patients from the Ashanti and Bono Regions.
