Front row – Mr. Ernest Asigri, Exec Director AG Care (third from left), Esenam Adzadzi – MPSG (fourth from left), Linda Larbi, MPSG (fifth from left), William Adjei-Darkwa – MPSG (sixth from left)
MODEC and its MV25 charter partners have formally handed over critical gynecological and paediatric medical equipment valued at over GHS 830,000 to the Assemblies of God Hospital, Saboba (AG Hospital, Saboba) in the Northern region.
The donation, which includes multiple hospital beds and cots for the maternity and paediatric wards, anesthesia machines, modern delivery tables, nebulizer machines and allied devices is intended to strengthen maternal and paediatric services at the hospital.
The AG Hospital Saboba, a 134-bed missionary hospital, serves as the primary referral centre for the Saboba District. The hospital provides healthcare services to over 120,000 people across the district, other neighbouring remote districts and cross-border communities.
Equipment shortages in recent times, particularly some maternal and childcare equipment, have placed a strain on the facility. This donation from MODEC and its partners directly addresses a clear need for the tools to improve patient care.
Two days following the donation, on 21 February, an accidental fire gutted the hospital’s children’s ward. While the facility suffered extensive damage, all patients and staff were safely evacuated without injury.
This unfortunate event made immediate headlines and placed the newly donated equipment by MODEC and its partners into a sharper, more urgent context. The donation’s fortuitous timing has profoundly reshaped its impact. What was intended as critical aid to address the facility’s pre-existing needs has now become an indispensable support in the wake of the fire.
Mr. Ernest Asigri, Executive Director of AG Care-Ghana, described the contribution as “the single largest private donation the hospital has received.” That assessment is a testament to the donors’ strategic selection of the hospital for support.
A notable development emerging from this contribution is the allocation of all donated beds to the temporary children’s ward, which was destroyed by the fire. This immediate deployment makes the donation operationally crucial, providing significant relief to the unit most severely impacted by the fire.
The recent events at AG Hospital, Saboba highlights two important truths about how companies and donors significantly support healthcare in Ghana’s rural areas. Firstly, strategic donations and contributions provide indispensable resources to hardworking medical teams serving often in under-resourced facilities and stretched to their limits. Secondly the longevity of the value (of contributions) depends on systems that enable their proper use and maintenance.
The ultimate value of this recent donation will be determined by strong operational and maintenance systems that ensure these critical resources are not rendered obsolete.
MODEC and its MV25 partners are not strangers to sustained engagement in Ghana’s health sector. Their substantial support for Tropical Disease Research at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) in the amount of USD 2.1 million since 2018, through collaboration with the Scientific Tokyo (formerly Tokyo Medical and Dental University), and their essential support of over USD 600,000 to four testing centres (KCCR, TVL, NPHRL and NMIMR) during Ghana’s COVID-19 response, establish a pattern of significant support and long-term engagement.
To conclude, the AG Hospital Saboba’s experience is a powerful example of how strategic corporate social investment can stabilize a critical rural health frontline institution during its most vulnerable moment. It emphasizes the necessary role of private-sector partnership in augmenting rural hospital budgets.
By providing quality equipment to a facility that was already demonstrating remarkable resilience under pressure, MODEC and its MV25 charter partners have enhanced the hospital’s clinical capacity. As these new assets are integrated into the hospital’s daily operations, they stand as a reminder of how private-sector collaboration can transform a moment of crisis into a source of better care for the community.
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