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General news for Monday, March 1, 2021
Source: My GH news
2021-03-01
A photo of the Police Dialysis Center.
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. James Oppong-Boanuh, has underlined the importance of a healthy police service with strong police personnel to protect the lives and property of citizens.
He revealed that sick police officers will not be able to cope with the task of performing their duties efficiently and professionally if their well-being is not prioritized.
In this context, he indicated that his administration is prepared to equip the police hospital with the necessary logistics to ensure that the health of the personnel has the highest priority.
In a speech read on his behalf by the COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah (Ms) At the commissioning of an ultra-modern dialysis center at the Police Hospital in Accra, the IGP noted that there are conscious efforts to keep the healthy and alert staff at all times.
“We are working to ensure that the police hospital has the necessary logistics to meet the health needs of the staff. This is the only one of its kind in collaboration with other stakeholders that care about the service and its staff ”, he revealed.
Dr. Bhabendra Putatunda, president of Kidney Clinics & Research Centers International, Inc., (KCRCI), the nonprofit organization that provides dialysis equipment, supplies and education to underserved areas around the world, praised the efforts of the COP (Mrs.) Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo – Danquah and his brother-in-law, Mr. Addison-Amponsah, for facilitating the donation of 20 dialysis to the Ghana Police Service.
“The initial application was made by Mr. Kwabena Addison-Amponsah, who works at Dialysis Clinic, Inc., (DCI), the largest non-profit dialysis company in the United States. He is also a representative of the Middle Tennessee Ghana Association. Mr. Addison-Amponsah is the brother-in-law of the CoP (Ms.) Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah. Mr. Addison Amponsah contacted Mr. Ed Attrill, president of DCI, to ask if KCRCI would support the Accra Ghana Police Hospital.
KCRCI is proud and honored to have been able to fulfill our early efforts in this mission of providing dialysis machines, education and training by our teams from the US and India who visited Accra, Ghana between 23-27 January 2020.
DCOP / Dr. Ms Mariam Tetteh-Kobboe, Medical Director and Head of the Ghana Police Hospital in Accra, was instrumental and a key figure in helping to realize this collaboration. COP / Ms Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, General Director of Welfare of the Ghana Police Service, visited us in the United States twice and was instrumental in providing us with the assurance that the machine would be used for its intended purpose. She also assisted with immigration assistance for our teams visiting both the United States and India for installation, testing and ensuring the machines are operational, ”she revealed.
He indicated that they are committed to continuing to support the Accra Police Hospital in Ghana and improving the quality of care in dialysis programs, improving data collection for research purposes, supplying future equipment as needed, providing continuing education and plan to visit Accra on time. in time to maintain their collaboration by implying that they will also provide technical and nursing education.
“We were pleased to meet the nephrologist, Dr. Kumashie, who will be the director of the dialysis program at the Ghana Police Hospital. We are comfortable with your expertise in managing the machines. Meeting with the Deputy Medical Director, Dr. Ebenezer Ewusi-Emmim, on a Zoom call recently was very fruitful. At the Zoom meeting we discussed our future plans to improve our communication and the possible help that we can offer to the Police Hospital ”, he emphasized.
