Fifteen children have died as a result of Tamale Teaching Hospital’s terrible scarcity of pediatric dialysis machines and supplies. Healthcare professionals are utilizing adult machines because there aren’t enough basic medical supplies, which puts fragile young patients at serious risk. The dialysis unit’s nurse manager, Adam Yahaya Wanzam, made an urgent request for help.
At the Tamale Teaching Hospital, a tragic series of events transpired as the lack of pediatric dialysis equipment and consumables led to the deaths of fifteen children.
Healthcare professionals are forced to use adult machinery due to the severe circumstances, which puts the lives of young patients in grave danger.
Wanzam bemoaned, “We have lost over 10 to 15 children who were supposed to receive dialysis,” underscoring the grave repercussions of making do with makeshift devices meant for adults and stressing that these devices and their consumables are not meant for young people.
Beyond the lives lost, this shortage has a terrible effect on the families who must bear unspeakable suffering. Wanzam begged people and non-governmental groups to assist them in order to stop further innocent lives from being lost at the dialysis unit of the Tamale Teaching Hospital.
