Lube Oil aids TGH with heart monitoring equipment

Tema, July 28 GNA - Medical doctors at the Tema General Hospital (TGH) were on Monday relieved of the problems of monitoring diseases related to the heart following a donation of one Electrical Cardiac Gram (ECG) a heart monitoring equipment to the hospital by the Tema Lube Oil Company (TLOC), manufacturers of lubricants for the Oil Marketing Companies. In addition, the TLOC presented two Intra-Operative Monitors used in monitoring the condition of a patient under-going surgery, all totalling 230 million cedis.

This is the second time in two years that the company has donated ultra modern equipment to the hospital. The first was in December 2001, when it gave out 200 million cedis worth of equipment for the Accident and Emergency unit of the hospital. Receiving the equipment at a ceremony at the hospital, Dr Otu Tawiah,

Acting Medical Superintendent of the TGH expressed gratitude to the donors and said, "the hospital has been in need of the very important equipment for a long time but financial constraints have deprived it of procuring one". He said the equipment would help improve their services and promised to take good care of them to benefit the patients and appealed to other

companies, organisations and philanthropists to emulate the TLOC. Mr Richard Adu-Poku, member of the Board of Directors (BOD) of the TLOC who presented the items explained that the gesture was in line with the company's objective to contribute to the social needs of the community. The TLOC, he said, has been contributing to the general upliftment of the community through various donations for education, medical care, environmental health/safety, sporting activities and other social needs.

The BOD, he explained, deemed it appropriate to turn attention to intensifying the provision of medical care to alleviate the burden placed on the inhabitants, so it was in this direction that the company has embarked on a three-year programme to provide essential hospital equipment to the hospital which serves surrounding towns and patients referred from other health institutions.