Help Keep Mothers and Babies Healthy in Ghana

Greetings from Ghana at the Brazza Maternity Clinic in Kwashieman-Accra. We are working with to help lower infant and maternal mortality rates as well as provide medical supplies and equipment, training opportunities and professional development to the more than 4,000 practicing midwives. We are especially targeting Ghana's five impoverished Central, Northern, Upper East, Upper West and Volta regions. Within these regions there are deprived districts whose village mothers and babies need access to health services. Two NGOs, Education and Health Development Trust and its sister Girl-Child International have teamed up with Midwife Comfort Kwawu of Brazza, and the International Research Foundation/United Nations Association National Capital Area-African Affairs Committee headed by Madam Comfort's daughter, Lydia Kwawu. Brazza is a small maternity clinic with only 4 ward rooms and one labor room. We have a part-time Ortho physician, Dr. Oddo Tetteh; however, we need volunteer doctors on a rolling basis.

We need your help! Volunteer. Or donate much-needed equipment and drugs:
Equipment needs:1) weighing scales
2) Bathroom scale to weigh expectant mothers
3) Autoclave to sterilize equipments before and after use
4) Microscope to do simple blood tests for malaria parasites, stool and urine tests for worms
5) Test tubes and glass slides.
6) Incubators; if possible an ambulance to transport emergency cases to a referral hospital
7) Two foetoscopes and a suction machine, one electric Instrument sterilizer. A dozen large artery forceps, one instrument trolley and a stethoscope.

We need the following drugs:
Penicillin v. Sodium 250mg tablets
Amoxycillin capsules. 250mg
Ampicillin capsules .250mg
Benzanthine G.2.4 injection
Benzylpenicillin sodium 5MIU
Chloramphenical capsules 250mg.
Cotrimoxozole 400/80mg
Cemetidim tablets 250mg
Diclofenac sodium 50mg tablets
Diclofenac sodium 100mg tablets
Diclofenac sodium 75mg injection
Erythromycin tablets 250mg.
Propranolol 40mg tablets
Gentamycin sulphate 80mg /ml, 2ml
Ketoconazole tablets 200mg
Indomethacine capsules 25mg
Dexamethason eye drops
Tetracycline 250mg capsules
Vitamin B Compound injection
Vitamin B Compound tablets
Tetracyclin eye ointment
Metronidazole tablets 200mg
Sulzadoxine pyramethamine tablets
500mg Quinine tablets 300mg
Quinine injection 600mg/ml,2ml
Acyclovil 200mg tablets
Aminophylline 100mg tablets
Promethazine tablets 25mg
Ascorbic Acid 100mg tablets

Captopril 25mg tablets

Chlorpheniramine 4mg tablets
Chloroquine 250mg injection

Promethazine injection 50mg
Disposable syringes 2ml
Disposable syringes 3ml
Calcium Gluconate tablets
Nalidixic Acid 500mg tablets

Any help and assistance will be greatly appreciated. Thank you! Education and Health Development Trust / Girl-Child International, ehdt_ghana@yahoo.com and africanqueenz@gmail.com, Sandra Ross, Director