Kumasi, March 13, GNA- A team of cardiothoracic surgeons from the Children's Department of the Boston University Hospital in the USA, has donated medical equipment to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH)in Kumasi.

They included two eco-machines for detecting heart diseases, eight cardiac monitors, two ventilators and three computers to facilitate the establishment of a Paediatric Cardiac Centre at the hospital. The surgeons led by Dr Francis Fynn-Thompson, were at the KATH to perform free heart surgeries on children with cardiac problems. The team also donated clothes, school bags, toys, learning and teaching aids, calculators, dictionaries, reading and exercise books to a number of orphanages and charity homes in the Ashanti region. Other beneficiaries were the Trede R/C Primary School, Barikuma D/C Primary School, Kumasi Children's Home, Sisters of Charity Home at

Mmrom, and the Ghana Registered Nurses Creche. Dr Fynn-Thompson said the team was considering organizing exchange programmes for some schools in Kumasi and its environs and their counterparts in the USA.