Apam (C/R), Nov. 19, GNA - The General Electric (GE) Health Care team, from America has donated 30 mattresses with the corresponding pillows and bed sheets to Apam Catholic Hospital at Apam. The Hospital, the only one in the Gomoa District, is one of the 12 health facilities in the country selected to benefit from GE projects. It has received a number of supports from the projects, including modern equipment, water storage facility, Internet connectivity facility, power plant and others since 2006.

Welcoming the team, led by the GE Vice President, Mr Lloyd Trotter to the Hospital, Dr. Ebenezer Amekah, Medical Superintendent expressed gratitude to Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, the former Director General of the Ghana Health service (GHS) for linking the Hospital to the General Electric.

He said the Hospital could now boast of some first class equipment, which some leading Hospitals did not have and was grateful to the General Electric for improving the quality of health care delivery in the Gomoa District and beyond.

Dr Amekah said though GE had provided the Hospital with a huge overhead water reservoir, it had not received a drop of water from the pipelines since its installation about a year ago and provision of water had been a drain on the Hospital's finances. Mr Fred O. Addai, Gomoa District Co-ordinating Director thanked General Electric for supporting the Hospital. He said whatever service rendered to Apam Catholic Hospital was a service to the whole of the Gomoa District and even beyond since it was the only Hospital serving the area.

The District Co-ordinating Director said steps were being taken by the Assembly to solve the water problem facing the facility. Mr Trotter, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of General Electric Industrial Services, said GE was pleased to be associated with some of the good things at the Hospital. He assured the people of the continued support to improve efficiency of the services at the Hospital. The Vice President expressed satisfaction at how GE support to the Hospital was being managed.

Mr Francis Yawson, the Hospital Administrator, said the facility was acquiring additional computers to commercialize the Internet to reduce cost of its operation. Nana Edu Effrim X, Chief of Apam who chaired the function said three acres of land had been released to the Hospital for expansion. He appealed to GE to offer scholarships to some of the workers of the Hospital to under study General Electric to sustain maintenance of the equipment donated.