ASIC Quick Feedback Feb 10

AfriKids Social Investment Club Listen, Empower, Sustain February 2010- progress so far

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Foundations go in on the ASIC ward and two other new wards

The local contractors’ team lay the foundations of the new wards, allowance has also been made for a permanent x-ray unit which AfriKids is currently fundraising for.

The generator is installed and the x-ray service is launched

From left; the new Medical Centre generator is installed; Jane Spring (superintendent radiographer at SUHT) officially donates a portable x-ray machine to Lucio Dery (regional administrator of Ghana Health Services); Jane Spring with Medical Assistant Benedicta Ayine and an x-ray of her knee, the first to be taken.

The AfriKids- Ghana Health Services (GHS)Southampton Universities Hospital Trust (SUHT) Partnership is officially launched In January 2010 a delegation from SUHT travelled to Ghana to create the official partnership agreement with Ghana Health Services and AfriKids Ghana. The first phase of this will be a two year programme of training and professional exchange. Funding has been secured from the Tropical Health Institute via its International Healthcare Links programme and the Ghana Health Service. The photos clockwise from top left show; the SUHT delegation at the AfriKids Medical Centre with senior staff; Lena Samuels (SUHT board member) interviewing the Upper East’s regional minister (hon.

Mark Woyongo; GHS launch workshop; the SUHT delegation with Mama Laadi’s children; Nick Eastcott (AfriKids’ Healthcare manager- funded by Vodafone World of Difference), Lucio Dery (Regional Administrator, GHS) and Dr J Koku Awoonor- Williams, Director of GHS, Upper East Region.