Administrators of Upper East Regional Hospital and Afrikids Medical Center, have respectively commended Union of May Borns (UMABO) for its continuous partnership in healthcare delivery in the region.
Since 2016, UMABO has consistently organised a number of blood donation exercises at the regional hospital in Bolgatanga and also presented assorted baby items mainly toiletries, to newborns at the maternity ward of the hospital. These exercises are always done in the month of May as main activities of the union to celebrate its members.
Last Thursday May 31, members of the union once again showed compassionate love to newborn babies at the maternity ward of the regional hospital when they presented assorted baby items to them. There were two categories of babies who benefited. They included those who were born earlier in May but due to varied health conditions, were detained at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for special care and those who were freshly born and were still on admission on the morning of May 31. In all, 41 babies including a set of twins received parceled items including baby diapers, baby wipes, washing powder soap and bars of key soap.
Medical Director of the regional hospital, Dr. Patrick Atobrah who was joined by his administer, Mr. Zakaria Yakubu, could not hide his feelings about how individuals born in a particular month could form a union and even take up social services to help society.
According to him, the gesture was not only for the newborns but, their mothers especially who had complications and needed love and care. He said: “The pleasure is ours on behalf of management, I wish to express our utmost gratitude for this your gesture. You have done it severally, last year you did. I have never experienced it like this before and the difference is that, it is not only the physical care that helps them, but also the psychological aspect. The fact that you are here and they realise that people care about them is even enough. Those who have had complications have been immediately relieved by the fact that they realise that people care for them.”
Dr. Gillian Bugee, a Senior Medical Officer and Head of NICU at the regional hospital also commended UMABO for the care and love for little babies for the past years and challenged people born in other months to also put themselves together not only for their individual’s interest but also to contribute their quota to society.
When UMABO planned to donate blood at the regional hospital this year, their plan could not materialise due to the ongoing strike by laboratory scientists. However, the donation exercise was shifted to Afrikids Medical Center on May 25. Mr. Godfred Njindan, administrator of the center, described the exercise as timely because as rains set in, cases of anaemia have started going up and that requires more blood at the blood bank. He therefore urged members to periodically carry out such interventions at his center to help save lives.
President of UMABO and Tutor at St. John Bosco’s College of Education in Navrongo commended his members for their willingness to contribute in diverse ways to ensure the union was able to carry out all its activities this. Though he admitted members have always supported the activities of the union, the response this year was extraordinarily massive.
At the regional hospital, Mr. Asigri hinted management that the union will organise a blood donation exercise at the facility in September this year.
UMABO, comprising people born in the month of May, was started in May 2010 with the objective of bringing together all May borns for a common goal of identifying themselves with their birth month and caring for one another and society.
Guided by UMABO constitution with an executive body, members hold quarterly meetings to socialize and discuss their welfare matters and their role in contributing to make a better society. The union currently has a membership 120 with its headquarters in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region and a branch in the Ashanti.
This year’s month long celebration was climaxed with a party at Ex-Tee Crystal Hotel in Bolgatanga.
Source:TopNewsGhana.com
