A Canada-based medical physician, Dr Charles Kene Ojukwu, has donated medical gear to the Primary Health Centre at Christ the King Parish, Abatete, Anambra State, to help maternal and new child healthcare.
The gear was blessed by the Archbishop of Onitsha and Metropolitan of the Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province, Most Rev. Valerian Maduka Okeke, on October 11.
The donation was made by way of the Charles Kene Ojukwu Initiative Foundation.
The gadgets embody an autoclave machine, suction machine, cardiac monitor, oxygen cylinder with trolley, supply mattress, digital fetal Doppler, nebuliser machine, diagnostic ultrasound machine and phototherapy machine.
Other gadgets embody labour and minor surgical gear. The well being centre was additionally repainted as a part of the intervention.
The donation is meant to enhance entry to important maternal and new child healthcare companies on the facility.
According to the donor, the gear will allow pregnant ladies to entry ultrasound scans on the centre and assist healthcare staff present phototherapy for newborns with jaundice.
The nebuliser and suction machines are anticipated to help emergency interventions, whereas the autoclave will facilitate the sterilisation of medical devices.
The supply and minor surgical gear may also help midwives in finishing up procedures, together with suturing lacerations and episiotomies.
The initiative is geared toward strengthening healthcare supply and contributing to efforts to scale back maternal and youngster mortality in Abatete and neighbouring communities.
