Patients at Pantang Hospital receive relief items

Accra, Oct. 2, GNA – The Shalom Indigenous Foundation (SIF), a Christian non-governmental organisation at the week-end presented food and medical items and GHc50 to inmates of Pantang Hospital in Accra.

The items that worth GHc 2,000 included three bales of used clothes, 32 boxes snack cookies, a box of syringes, four sterile lancet, seven infusion sets, a test tube, 13 surgical gloves and seven surgical blades.

Reverend Noah T. Quarshie, President of SIF, said it was a heartfelt activity to support the inmates and activities of the hospital.

He said that there was the need to assist the inmates to recover from depression.

Ms Stella Torho, Principal Nursing Officer at the Pantang Hospital, thanked the NGO for its care and support for the inmates.

She said there were 500 patients and the hospital was making efforts to provide quality health care and create congenial atmosphere for them.

Ms Torho said that feeding the patients was a challenge to management and commended the NGO for the donation.

She said provision of adequate water supply to the hospital was a problem since they had to rely on tankers daily, and appealed to government to solve these problems to enable the hospital to provide quality care for the patients.