A total of 236 patients diagnosed with Hernia, Hydrocele, Goiter,Haemorrhoids,Uterine prolapse,Fibroids,Lipoma's, Ganglions and breast lumps among others have benefited from a life changing free surgeries conducted concurrently in the two districts of the Builsa traditional area (Builsa North Municipal and Builsa South Districts of the Upper East Region) by the Team of hope Ghana, a nonprofit organisation.
The outreach which began on Monday 14th November 2022, saw the team breaking the odds by being the first to conduct surgeries in an ill equiped virgin theatre in the Builsa South district where the team attended to 48 cases within a three day period spanning Monday 14th-Wednesday 16th November,2022. Whilst a total of 188 cases were operated on at the Sandema hospital within a five day period which ended on Friday 18th November,2022.
The Municipal Chief Executive of the Builsa North Municipality Mad. Vida Akantagriwon Anaab together with the Builsa North Municipal Coordinating Director Mr. Godfred K. B. Bamba, the Npp Chairman for the Builsa North Constituency Mr. Atuga A. Albert and some Npp constituency executives who visited the Sandema hospital Theater to welcome the team were full of praises to the team of hope for the wonderful work they were doing at providing free surgeries to the people of the Builsa traditional area and beyond who hitherto due to poverty and distance could not have had the opportunity to be operated on.
The MCE and her entourage presented an undisclosed amount of money to the team of hope in support of their Surgical outreach and pledged the Assembly's continuous support to the team to enable them touch more lives in the traditional area and beyond.
Dr. Jaabir Alhassan a member of the team of hope was grateful to the MCE and her entourage for welcoming them to the Municipality and for the support given to the team of hope. He called on the District Assembly to support the hospital with operating instruments to reduce the turn around time in conducting surgeries on each client saying " staff of the theatre have to continuously process and sterilize the operating instruments, other times we have to wait for the instruments to get cool a little before we can use them" this he said rather delay the time in conducting surgeries on patients.
The MCE seized the opportunity to tour the various wards of the facility to see how the patients were faring were she also donated an undisclosed amount of money to each ward to be used to cater for the patients on admission.
At a separate event, the overlord of the Builsa Traditional area Nab. Azagsuk Azantilow II in a farewell message to the team at his residence, thanked them for the care rendered to the people of his traditional area and also prayed for God guidance and protection to all who contributed in diverse ways at making the Surgical outreach by the team of hope in the Builsa traditional area a success.
Abakisi Derrick-Noiyeng Radio
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