New generator capacity to power La General Hospital

Accra, Aug. 16, GNA - Power outages at the La General Hospital will now be a thing of the

past following the presentation of a 250KV Prime Power Generator donated by the Member of

Parliament for La Dadekotopon, Nii Amasah Namoale. The MP, who is also a Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture in Charge of Fisheries, made

the donation on Tuesday to save the hospital from the frequent difficulties it goes through in

handling critical cases such as surgery and deliveries, whenever there was power outage.

Nii Namoale provided GH¢72,056.38 as the cost of 200KV of the generator while Global

Power Energy, a locally based energy company that supplied the facility, bore the cost of the

additional 50KV as its social responsibility to the hospital. The capacity of the generator can power the whole hospital when there is a power outage. The MP said the hospital old generator had always broken down and therefore felt the need

for its replacement in order to save the lives of thousands of patients tha= t visited the facility. He said politicians were put in office to meet the needs of people in society. 93If people are

dying in our hospitals today because of electricity (power) then as politicians we should all bow

down our heads in shame," he said and asked why politicians should be in office when people

who placed them there could not see improvement in their lives. Having witnessed a power outage at the La General Hospital, the Chief Executive of the

Accra metropolitan Assembly, Mr Alfred Vanderpuije, said he was glad that the electricity

problem was now over and hoped the facility would be properly managed. He said the proposal to supply the generator came to him from the MP and he willingly

supported it, adding 93I will never be a stumbling block to the Better Gha= na Agenda." Mr Vanderpuije said conditions in the public health facilities in the metropolis needed to be

improved to make the delivery of health care more accessible to Ghanaians. Welcoming officials for the handling-over of the generator, Dr Julian= a Ameh, a Specialist

Pediatrician at the hospital, noted that La General Hospital's chronic headache, which was

unreliable power supply, had just been cured with the new facility. "It has been a challenge in this hospital with our electricity condition, especially during

operation," she said and added that patients were in the wards and mother= s had come to deliver

whilst laboratory staff needed power to carry out quick tests. 16 Aug. 11 Caption: Mr Vanderpuije and Nii Namoale handing over the keys of the generator to Dr Juliana Ameh of

the hospital