Building Projects by the Foundation
From our interactions with the Ministry, we were reliably informed that, it was in 2012, that the Ministry of Health considered the provision of separate Pediatric Wards and Neonatal Facilities for our hospitals in Ghana.
This explains why most hospitals do not have paediatric wards or Neonatal facilities and have to improvise for them.
So most of the hospitals have had to allocate a smaller room in the maternity ward to take care of this need. This unfortunate creates some congestion and increases the rate of infection.
The Jay Foundation has identified the need to put up separate structures to serves at NICUs and mother’s hostels. This is mainly to reduce the high mortality rate of 25-30% on yearly basis.
In July 2020, in the midst of the COVID pandemic, we put up a new NICU and Mother’s Shed at the Keta Municipal Hospital in the Volta Region. This was due to an urgent request and plea by the hospital, who had an overflow of babies who needed neonatal care.
We have more plans to put ten (10) more units in need locations to help achieve our short term goal.
We also intend to build a first class facility for surgical purposes only. Currently in Ghana, we are not able to perform various surgeries for tiny or preterm babies. They have to be sent abroad for these to be done.
This has however translated to a long term goal for the foundation. Hopefully, more preterm and sick babies will be saved when we are able to achieve this goal.