MTN Ghana Foundation has commissioned an ultra-modern 60-bed maternity and child health block at the Keta Municipal Hospital (KMH) in the Volta Region.
MTN Ghana gifted the hospital a state-of-the-art facility to boost access to quality healthcare services for mothers and babies.
The initiative is part of MTN’s healthcare projects and is significant in marking the company’s 25th anniversary in Ghana.
The outgoing CEO of MTN Ghana, Selorm Adadevoh, said, “This is the third, and by far the largest, of the maternity block projects the MTN Ghana Foundation has ever completed in Ghana”.
The new block has a 40-bed maternity ward, which includes emergency rooms, a first-stage ward, a delivery ward, recovery rooms, and a lie-in ward. It also has a 20-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), two operating theatres, a 20-bed hostel for mothers, two consulting rooms and offices for nurses, a reception, and an outpatient department (OPD).
The block also has a laboratory and dispensary, a scrub and sluice room, an anaesthetics room, an intensive care ward, a restroom for doctors and nurses, a staff eatery, storage and washrooms, a ramp, an electrical and power room, a head of the department’s office, Gas tanks, waste bins and utility rooms.
The facility cost MTN Ghana Foundation GHC19 million.
According to Adadevoh, MTN Ghana hopes “To reduce Ghana’s neonatal mortality from the dire 22.8 deaths in every 1000 live births, closer to the target set by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of 12 deaths per 1000 live births and for maternal mortality, from Ghana’s dire 263 per 1000 closer to the SDG target of 70”.
Selorm also revealed that MTN Ghana has plans to expand the accident and emergency block at the Ho Teaching Hospital.
“I am proud to also share that we have recently also received approval for the expansion of the accident and emergency block of the Ho Teaching Hospital. Work is expected to commence in June of 2024” he noted.
Various stakeholders at the commissioning ceremony, including the Keta municipal and Volta regional health directorate, thanked MTN Ghana Foundation for the gesture. They promised to prioritise a good maintenance culture of the facility.
The king of Anlo, Togbe Sri III, applauded MTN Ghana for all the interventions it has initiated in the Anlo Kingdom.
Keta Municipal Hospital is the only central health facility in the southern part of the Volta Region. Over the years, it has received support from benevolent individuals and organisations to enhance healthcare delivery in the area.
Reporting by Albert Kuzor in the Volta Region
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