The lack of pediatric dialysis machines and consumables on the Tamale Teaching Hospital has led to the tragic lack of 15 youngsters within the hospital.
This has compelled healthcare employees to improvise with utilizing grownup machines on youngsters, placing the lives of weak sufferers at excessive danger.
The Nurse Manager of the Tamale Teaching Hospital Dialysis Unit, Adam Yahaya Wanzam appealed to people and nongovernmental organizations for help to supply the life-saving gear and provides which can be urgently wanted.
“We have misplaced over 10 to fifteen youngsters who had been purported to obtain dialysis. But for an absence of pediatric machines, we had been improvising with the grownup machines, and the grownup machines and consumables should not for kids.
“We are calling on individuals and Non-governmental organisations to come to our aid by helping us acquire these pediatric machines and consumables so that when an innocent child finds him/herself in this situation, the Tamale Teaching Hospital Dialysis unit can be able to rescue them.” he mentioned in an interview on Citi FM.
Mr. Wanzam highlighted the devastating impact of the scarcity, not just for the kids but additionally for his or her households who should endure the unimaginable ache.