The project will build a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for the Achimota Hospital in Ghana. This will help save the lives of babies that are born prematurely and babies that are born too sick or with diverse complications. In Ghana, about one million babies are born every year out of which around 30,000 die before reaching 30 days of life. Newborn deaths account for nearly 40% of under-five mortality in the country. Reducing newborn deaths is essential if Ghana is going to achieve its MDGs.
In Ghana, about one million babies are born every year out of which around 30,000 die before reaching 30 days of life. Newborn deaths account for nearly 40% of under-five mortality in the country. Reducing newborn deaths is essential if Ghana is going to achieve its Millennium Development Goal to reduce child mortality. Too many babies in Ghana are dying in their first month of life. The most common causes of deaths are prematurity, infections and birth asphyxia.
The project will provide for Achimota Hospital, a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit that will be attached to the maternity unit to provide healthcare to babies that are born sick or with complications and also babies that are born prematurely that need urgent care and attention. This will help save the lives of babies born at this hospital who need care and have to be transported to other other hospitals and sometimes are even lost because the means of transporting them are sometimes not available.
Reducing newborn deaths is essential if Ghana is going to achieve its Millennium Development Goal to reduce child mortality. When this project is completed, about 1000 babies that are born too sick or prematurely at this hospital will be given a fair chance to survive or fight for their lives.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
