Work on the mortuary project at the Tema General Hospital will be completed within the next six (6) months, MCE for Tema Metropolitan Assembly, Mr. Isaac Ashai Odamtten has indicated.

The hospital’s mortuary has been choked for several years now with no place to store corpses, forcing medical officers in charge to leave them on the bare floor, however, the government is initiating the project to help solve such problems confronting the only referral hospital in the Tema Metropolis.

MCE, Mr.  Isaac Ashai Odamtten who made the information known during the Assembly’s General meeting held recently said they will leave no stone unturned in their quest in to equip the Tema General Hospital with the needed facilities to enable them discharge their duties as expected of them.

He added that the Assembly is doing everything possible to solve the water problem which has over the years been a source of worry to the hospital authorities.

Mr. Odamtten further indicated that the Metro health directorate has trained and attached two (2) nurses each to the thirty-two (32) electoral areas within the metropolis to provide a health package of intervention from house to house.

“One of the interventions adopted by the directorate is to follow up on pregnant women from Antenatal till the post natal period,” he affirmed.

He also said that the Assembly was in the process of securing donations of equipment and medical supplies from stakeholders within the health sector to support all the health facilities in the Tema metropolis.

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