Breathing Life: How One Initiative is Changing Newborn Care in Ghana’s Ashanti Region In the heart of Ghana’s Ashanti Region, a quiet revolution has been unfolding—one that is saving the tiniest of lives and empowering the hands that deliver them. At the centre of this transformation stands Women’s Health To Wealth (WHW), an organisation with a deep-rooted commitment to maternal…
My name is Cordelia Andoh, a trained midwife with a background in community health nursing and a strong focus on preventive care. Over 24 years of working with women and young children, I’ve noticed that women’s health often receives little attention until pregnancy, even though breast and cervical cancer rates continue to rise. In 2016, I became interested in WHW’s…
As part of the MNCHIP project Women’s Health to Wealth (WHW) upgraded the warehouse which serves as the place for the storage of shipments from Americares, WHW’s partner in the United States of America, for onward distribution to sub recipients of the Gift-In-Kind (GIK) program. The building had substantial external structural defects, lighting and ventilation issues that required urgent redress….
The Women’s Health to Wealth, as part of their health screening of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) like hypertension, Diabetes and cervical cancer screening held a screening session at the Sekyere Central district to promote the health and well-being of women within the district. We arrived at Kyebi on the 19/07/24 at around 9:00 AM. At this small village we met women…
Baby Aisha Illiasu is a female baby delivered on 22/01/24 at 24weeks gestation with a birth weight of 800g and was severely distressed at birth. With their newly acquired skills in Essential Newborn Care, the midwives dried the baby thoroughly, suctioned and stimulated her. The midwives continued with bag and mask ventilation after which the baby started breathing. The baby…
The New Edubiase Government Hospital located in the Adansi South district of the Ashanti region in Ghana is the only facility that provides mental health services for a district with a total population of 85,200 people. With over a hundred mental health patients seeking care each month, the unit serves as a lifeline for residents not only in the Adansi…