15 Children have died at the Tamale Teaching Hospital due to shortage of paediatric dialysis machines and consumables.
The lives of children undergoing dialysis are at extreme risk because health workers have had to improvise the adult machines for the children due to the shortage of the devices and the essential medical supplies.
The Nurse Manager of the Tamale Teaching Hospital Dialysis Unit, Adam Yahaya Wanzam, has been telling Accra-based Citi FM the facility is in dire need of the machines and consumables in order to cater for the children seeking medication at the unit.
She has called on the government, individuals, and non-governmental organizations to step forward and provide the life-saving equipment and supplies that are urgently needed.
“We have lost over 10 to 15 children who were supposed to receive dialysis,” Wanzam lamented. “But for a lack of pediatric machines, we were improvising with the adult machines, and the adult machines and consumables are not for children,” she added.
She explained in addition the pain that parents of the deceased children would be going through, indicating how devastating the development is.
“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,” she pleaded.
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