Kumasi, Oct. 3, GNA - The Burns Unit of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has appealed to philanthropists and civil society organisations to come to assist the hospital to expand its facilities. Dr. Joseph Akpaloo, a Plastic Surgeon of the unit, said the expansion had become necessary because facilities could no longer cope with the increasing number of patients.

He said management of KATH had earmarked a piece of land at the hospital's premises for the construction of a new Burns Unit and said work on the project would start soon.

Dr. Akpaloo said this when he received GH=A2200 from Professor Mike Ocquaye, a presidential aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Prof Ocquaye visited the hospital to console victims of the recent gas explosion at the Engas Filling Station at Asokwa in Kumasi. The unit treated and discharged most of the about 130 people who got injured during the blast.

Prof Ocquaye commended staff of the unit on their commitment to duty and promised to make further donations towards building a new burns unit.