AQ-Hansaon Care Foundation is ready to build an ultra-modern Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Elmina Government Hospital to provide specialised care for newborns, premature or sick babies.
When completed, the facility would help reduce infant mortality rates and ensure healthy starts of vulnerable babies in the hospital’s catchment areas and the municipality as a whole.
Speaking at a short groundbreaking ceremony held at the forecourt of the hospital, the Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation, Aquinas Hanson Junior, disclosed that the official ceremony to commence the construction of the facility meant “a promise kept”.
He explained that “When we founded the AQ-HANSON CARE Foundation, we did so with a singular mission of empowering lives and transforming tomorrow”.
According to him, the above stated mission “has been our guiding principle and it is our firm resolve that this project will transform the tomorrow of many unborn babies with specialised care.”
The CEO of the Elmina based Foundation noted that there was no one more vulnerable, yet full of potential, than a newborn baby fighting for its first breath.
Notwithstanding this, he noted that “For too long, families in this historic town have faced the anxiety of traveling long distances to access specialised care for their newborns. Time matters when a baby is born prematurely or with complications.”
In view of this, Mr Hanson emphasised that his Foundation’s decision to construct a state-of-the-art NICU with modern incubators, ventilators and phototherapy units was meant to address the existing gap.
He further assured the management of the hospital that “we are not just providing bricks and mortar. We are partnering with you to build a legacy of health to transform lives and bring comfort to parents and babies.”
The medical superintendent of the Elmina Government Hospital, Dr John Asare Dadzie Mensah, on behalf the management expressed appreciation to AQ-Hanson Foundation and its CEO for their support.
He explained that upon completion, the NICU would enable the hospital to provide around-the-clock care for newborns with breathing problems, infections or birth complications.
He pledged the hospital’s readiness to welcome the Foundation as a strategic partner in their (management) quest to provide proper health care service to the people of KEEA and beyond.
The AQ-Hanson Care Foundation, which is based in Elmina, is fully committed to empowering lives, aiding the vulnerable and others.
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