Ridge ICU running out of oxygen for covid-19 patients LISTEN
FEB 2, 2021
The COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ridge, is gradually running out of oxygen.
This is as a result of increasing number of critical care and severe cases of COVID-19 reporting at the Facility.
Dr Emmanuel Ahiable, COVID-19 Case Management Lead at the Hospital, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an Interview that critical care beds at the Unit had been occupied since January 08, 2021, with high demand for oxygen.
Consequently, the Centre is said to be in urgent need of higher volumes of oxygen as each patient at the ICU requires 15 litres of oxygen per minute, with patients staying on oxygen for at least two weeks.
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Free newborn screening for sickle cell disease has been launched at the 37 Military and the Greater Accra Regional (Ridge) Hospitals.
The screening is an initiative of the Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana (SCFG) being implemented in collaboration with the American Society of Haematology (ASH).
It will be funded from the Consortium on Newborn Screening in Africa for Sickle Cell Disease of ASH.
It is aimed at screening more than 10,000 babies at the facilities annually to improve the health outcomes for infants with sickle cell.
The move also forms part of efforts to expand the National Newborn Screening Programme for Sickle Cell Disease (NNSPSCD), which is ensuring that persons diagnosed with the disease received appropriate health care, including counselling and clinical treatment.
Reports say the victims have been admitted at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital after part of an uncompleted two-storey building collapsed on them.
According to Adomonline.com, the building which has been identified as a school being constructed by the Rev Ernest Bruce Memorial Methodist Church is said to have caved in around 3:pm on Friday. Building collapse at Adabraka leaves 2 injured
The two victims are reported to be the labourers who were working on the building before it caved in.
It is further reported that the part of the uncompleted building which collapsed served as classrooms for some pupils who had closed as of the time the incident happened.
Susan Clinic is owned by Dr. Hope Mensah Quashie who is involved in baby harvesting
Susan Clinic, a private health centre, owned by Dr. Hope Mensah Quashie, who is said to be involved in “baby harvesting/human trafficking”, has been “shut down”.
The facility, located at Mataheko-Lartehbiokorshie, looked deserted with no human activity when the Ghana News Agency (GNA), visited on Thursday at about 1000 hours.
The GNA saw the main entrance opened but the door to the reception was locked under key.
Dr. Quashie, who also works at the 37 Military Hospital, was arrested on Thursday, December 31, 2020, at the private health facility, over an alleged sale of a baby boy to a team for an amount of GHS30,000.00 in October 2020, in a joint operation by the Medical and Dental Council (MDC) and the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), in Accra.