One of the main operational areas of Cheerful Hearts Foundation is Health. Due to our partnership with the Ministry of Health, we collaborate with local hospitals and clinics within the Awutu Senya district where we send interns and volunteers to learn and assist with health service delivery. As part of the collaboration, Cheerful Hearts Foundation also gets medical officers from the Health Ministry to assist us with educating people in our community health projects and HIV/AIDS educational campaigns.
Eliza Mette presenting the donations to Dr. George Asante at the Kasoa Hospital on behalf of Cheerful Hearts Foundation
Over the past years, Cheerful Hearts Foundation has been sending interns and volunteers to local Hospitals and Clinics within the Awutu Senya district to assist with health service delivery. One of such is the Kasoa Government Hospital. Till date a total of seven (7) interns and volunteers have served as health assistants in the maternity section of the Kasoa Government hospital, helping in a number of deliveries and other health services.
Besides learning and helping at the maternity ward, they identify needs of the hospitals and clinics and come up with reports highlighting suggested solutions on how to curtail such needs. In a collection of such reports, Cheerful Hearts identified that the maternity ward at Kasoa Government needs some basic medical equipment to aid in health service delivery to pregnant mothers at the maternity ward.
The Kasoa Government Hospital serves as the main hospital in the Awutu Senya district serving over 50 communities and does an average of 10 deliveries daily. The need to support the hospital came when two of our interns Eliza Mette and Alex Boulos from the USA who were working at the hospital identified the lack of certain basic materials needed by the maternity section to ensure adequate health care delivery.
In meeting some of these needs through the financial support from Alex and Eliza, the Cheerful Hearts Foundation team donated medical equipment worth GHC447.00 to the maternity session of the hospital on the 12th August 2011. The items donated are listed in a table below.
MEDICAL EQUIPMENT DONATED TO KASOA GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL BY
CHEERFUL HEARTS FOUNDATION
| QTY | DESCRIPTION | UNIT PRICE | AMOUNT |
| 2pcs | Artery Forceps 8″ str | 7.00 | 14.00 |
| 1pcs | Artery Forceps 8″ cur | 8.00 | 8.00 |
| 2pcs | Episiotomy Scissors 7″ | 7.00 | 14.00 |
| 1pcs | Episiotomy Scissors 5″ | 5.00 | 5.00 |
| 3pcs | Clinical Thermometer | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| 1pc | Surgical Gloves s/8 | 25.00 | 25.00 |
| 2pcs | Gali Pot | 7.00 | 14.00 |
| 25pcs | Infusion Set | 0.35 | 8.00 |
| 10pkt | Face Mask | 5.00 | 50.00 |
| 2pkts | Hair Cover | 8.00 | 16.00 |
| 4dz | Chromic | 8.00 | 32.00 |
| 3pcs | Stethoscope (dual head) | 5.00 | 15.00 |
| 1pc | Andon B.P Thermometers | 80.00 | 80.00 |
| 1pc | Tray | 50.00 | 50.00 |
| 1pc | Littman Stethoscope | 50.00 | 50.00 |
| 1 dz | Nylon 1 | 5.00 | 5.00 |
| 2pcs | Needle Holder | 5.00 | 10.00 |
| 1pc | Scissors (s/s) | 5.00 | 5.00 |
| 2pcs | Cotton Wool | 6.50 | 13.00 |
| 2pcs | Rubber Apron | 7.00 | 14.00 |
| 3pcs | Scissors 7″ | 6.00 | 18.00 |
| TOTAL GHC | 447.00 |
Portion of the materials donated
The Medical Officer in charge of the hospital, Dr. George Asante thanked Cheerful Hearts Foundation for the kind donation. He stated that these are items that they use daily on the ward and they hope that it will go a long way to help them in discharging their duties. He added that it appears we did our homework very well and intervened appropriately. The entire staff at the maternity ward was happy about the kind gesture.
We hope to be able to render such support on periodic basis to assist the health needs of the hospital and extend it to other hospitals and clinics within the district.
