TOP NURSE APPEALS FOR MORTUARY FOR PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL

By Felix Engsalige Nyaaba

Madam Doris Phillips, the Principal Nursing Officer (PNO) of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, has appealed to the government and corporate bodies to help to construct a Mortuary for the Hospital to help reduce extra burdens and cost on its authorities.

She said the absence of the facility had forced the Hospital authorities to send dead bodies to nearby government Hospitals which attract extra cost as the authorities have to pay for the dead bodies to be kept at those mortuaries.

She also  appealed  to  the family and relatives  of patients who have been cured but left at the facility to come for them, saying their continue staying in the Hospital was incurring extra debt for the authorities.

 Madam Phillips made the appeal when the Tema based elites sport club, the Dolphins Club, presented two Poly-tanks worth GHC4000.00 to the hospital at the weekend at Asylum-Down, Accra.

The donation of the poly- tanks  to the hospital formed part of the Dolphins Club vision and Mission to assist the needy and the deprived ones in society.

She noted that apart from the Mortuary, the hospital was in need of a generator, beds ,  Mattresses,  bungalows and  food for the patients  who are  been neglected by their family members.

According to the Principal Nursing Officer, the Hospital is also in shortage of medicines for patients, especially those who have no relative or could no longer trace their relatives after they have received treatment and are  to stay at home and only come for review.

She said, the Hospital has been experiencing water problem for years until the president, Professor John Evans Atta Mills intervened and drilled a borehole for the Hospital sometime last year following his unannounced visit to the facility.

She expressed appreciation to the Dolphins club and pledged that the Poly-tanks would be erected and stored with water to curtail the shortage of water at the hospital.

Mr. Joe Abbey, President of the Dolphins Club, expressed the hope that more of such donations and support would be given to other Institutions and organizations that are facing similar problems in the country.

He appealed to the authorities to make use of the poly tank for the benefit of the patients and visitors.

Mr. Abbey,  before handing over the two poly-tanks  told the Hospital authorities that, the Dolphins Club which existed about 20 years ago aims at  assisting  the needy and neglected in society and promised more of that would be donated to the Hospital and similar institutions and organizations.

The Dolphins Club, according to its president was formed by a group of young men who had succeeded in their endeavours and decided to come together to help others to earn a decent  living.

The Club is currently having 18 active members, including Nana Fynn a musician who described himself as an icon of Ghana music.

Caption: Mr. Joe Abbey president of Dolphins Club in a hand shake to hand over the two poly-tanks to Madam Doris Phillips,