Public Health Unit asked to intensify education on chronic diseases

Dr Charity Sarpong, Medical Superintendent of the Tema General Hospital, has called on the Public Health Unit of the Ministry of Health to intensify its education on causes, prevention and management of chronic diseases. She said patients continued to report malaria, hypertension and diabetes mellitus to the Hospital. Dr Sarpong was addressing a durbar of workers of the Hospital at Tema, where a total of 127 staff were awarded for their dedication to work, with the over all best award going to Mr Solomon Petterson. Fifteen retirees of the hospital were also rewarded and all the award winners received prizes television sets, refrigerators, clocks and wax prints. Dr Sarpong said the Hospital had put up a building to accommodate more patients and a staff canteen that would be in operational by March. She said the Hospital would organise training programmes to create awareness on good customer relation practices among the staff. Dr Sarpong has called on government to build more quarters for staff and to rehabilitate the theatre of the Hospital.