A Canada-based medical physician, Dr Charles Kene Ojukwu, has donated medical tools to the Primary Health Centre at Christ the King Parish, Abatete, Anambra State, to help maternal and new child healthcare.
The tools 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 via the Charles Kene Ojukwu Initiative Foundation.
The gadgets embrace 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 embrace labour and minor surgical tools. 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 providers on the facility.
According to the donor, the tools will allow pregnant girls 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 tools may even 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 baby mortality in Abatete and neighbouring communities.
