Sunyani Teaching Hospital in desperate need of blood – Biomedical Scientist
The Sunyani Teaching Hospital is experiencing an acute blood shortage, Mr Enoch Gyau, a biomedical scientist and the Unit Head of the hospital’s blood bank has said.
Basically, the shortage he added was due to the upgrade of the hospital, saying that had increased referrals from sister-facilities, especially facilities in rural communities, and appealed to the public to voluntarily donate blood to re-stock the blood bank.
Mr Gyau made the appeal in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Sunyani on the side-lines of blood donation exercises the hospital in collaboration with MTN Ghana Foundation organised and held at the Sunyani Senior High and Twene Amanfo Technical and Senior High Schools.
The exercises were in in line with the Foundation’s annual ‘Save a Life blood don...