Sampa District Hospital Facilities Upgrade Project

Description

Projected timeframe: 2013-2016 Inadequate facilities result in the high maternal and infant mortality rates, observed in this area. In rural Ghana the maternal mortality rate is 700 (IRIN 2008), per 100,000 live births compared to a rate of 13 per 100,000 live births in the U.S. (UNICEF 2010). This project focuses on raising funds to provide and install the facilities described in Projects 1 & 2 following. The goal is to reduce the maternal and infant mortality rates and also to provide adequate and reliable surgical intervention to address the huge backlog of surgical needs that currently cannot be supported by this facility.

Upgrade 2 Operating Rooms (ORs) Currently, there is only one operating room (with very limited and obsolete equipment) being utilized by the hospital. The second operating room has no anesthesia machine and therefore has been shut down. All the surgical cases in the entire District (of 80,000 people) are supported by a single inadequately equipped operating room. This project focuses on upgrading both ORs with essential equipment required to be in place for the ORs to be fully functional.

Upgrades include providing:

- lighting modifications, operating beds
- mobile programmable ventilator with monitor
- infusion pump, crash/resuscitation cart
- suction machine, anesthesia machine
- acute care physiologic monitoring system
- pulse oximeter and delivery/cesarean section sets

If you, a hospital, team, or organization is looking to partner with us and participate in or donate equipment to our Facilities Upgrade Project and would like more information, please Contact Us. Select the appropriate topic and include how we may contact you and the best time to do so. To help fund our Facilities Upgrade Project, please go to our Donate page his project focuses on raising funds to provide and install the facilities described in Projects 1 & 2 following. The goal is to reduce the maternal and infant mortality rates and also to provide adequate and reliable surgical intervention to address the huge backlog of surgical needs that currently cannot be supported by this facility. Upgrade 2 Operating Rooms (ORs) Currently, there is only one operating room (with very limited and obsolete equipment) being utilized by the hospital. The second operating room has no anesthesia machine and therefore has been shut down. All the surgical cases in the entire District (of 80,000 people) are supported by a single inadequately equipped operating room. This project focuses on upgrading both ORs with essential equipment required to be in place for the ORs to be fully functional. Upgrades include providing: