The St. Anne Catholic Hospital in the West Gonja Municipal recorded zero maternal mortality in the year 2024.
This was made known by the Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Nelson Agboadoh during a visit by the Channel One News to the hospital.
St. Anne Catholic Hospital is a referral hospital within the West Gonja Municipal where the CHPS compounds, clinics, and polyclinics refer cases when the need arises.
Dr Agboadoh stated that they worked hard on late referral of cases from the CHPS compounds, clinics, and polyclinics as they act as the district referral hospital within West Gonja municipality.
He added that they adapted measures such as readily available blood for transfusion and dedicated medical officers.
According to Dr Agboadoh, some patients do not take antenatal care seriously, something he identifies as risky during pregnancy.
Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit nurse, Sumaya Nuadom, revealed that the hospital lacks incubator, radiant warmer and phototherapy machines used for preterm babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
“The NICU has done very well in terms of our Neo-natal Mortality, it has gone drastically but there are issues like incubators. We do not have any functioning incubator. We don’t have enough radiant warmers,” he said.
Midwifery officer, Millicent Sackey lamented the small size of the delivery room in the maternity ward.
She indicated that the delivery room can only contain two delivery beds. If there are more cases, patients deliver on their beds even before getting to the delivery room due to the lack of a spacious maternity ward.
X-ray Technical Assistant, Sulemana Abdul Rahman revealed that, for the past nine months, the hospital has been operating without X-ray machines, thus referring patients to either Tamale Teaching Hospital or Bole Hospital for X-ray.
By Gazari Malik
