Ongoing Project: A New Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
With support from the Wild Ganzen Foundation, we are building an ultra-modern NICU to ease pressure on newborn care across the Ahafo Region.
As part of efforts by management to improve newborn and neonatal care, an ultra-modern Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is under construction.
The Wild Ganzen Foundation in the Netherlands has offered support towards the project.
Currently, newborn and neonatal care is provided in a small NICU facility carved out of the Children’s Ward. Due to the high burden on it as a referral centre for the region, with referrals coming from both within and beyond the Ahafo Region, the available space is highly limited.
When completed, the new NICU facility will go a long way to ease pressure on the limited space currently available, and will help improve the delivery of care for neonates in the Ahafo Region and beyond.
First published in the St. Elizabeth Catholic Hospital Newsletter, Maiden Edition (2022).
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