New sense of mission prevails at Ho Municipal Hospital

Ho, Jan. 10, GNA - The Ho Municipal Hospital is awakening to a new sense of mission where love of duty has become the guiding principle despite difficult conditions at the hospital. The new sense of mission is to be inscribed in a strategic plan to be launched soon to among others establish "an emergency response system and a mass disaster management system to help move away from intuition-voluntary approach to evidence-based approach". Dr Gafatsi Kofi Normanyo, Acting Medical Superintendent of the Hospital, said this in a letter commending 14 medical personnel whose prompt response and team spirit saved the life of a patient on Saturday December 29, 2007.

If the medical team had not responded promptly, the patient would have bled to death after delivering "abruption placenta." "This is the most singular event that tells me we have moved from frustrations of the past to a different era. The readiness to serve, to give love and not expecting reward, the commitment to give that love and putting oneself in the firing line for a life is something refreshing", he said.

Each of the 14 medical personnel would receive 10 Ghana cedis from the hospital's internally generated revenue in appreciation. Dr Normanyo said this new spirit had increased daily out- patient attendance from 90 in the past to over 300 in recent times creating a situation where there are now not enough beds for patients on admission.