The Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) has granted approval for its isolation ward, at the Rebecca Akufo-Addo Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) for infectious children to be renamed after the late Childhood Cancer Ambassador, Breanna Fosua Addai.
Late Breanna Fosua Addai, died at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital at age nine after battling with an Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia disease for two years on August 3, 2022.
Following her death, the Breanna Memorial Childhood Cancer Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) was established in her memory.
The Executive Director of the foundation, Mr Solomon Addai, in an interview with the Ghanaian Times, in Accra, yesterday on the sidelines of the commemoration of International Childhood Cancer Day, explained that the adoption of the ward was to support children on admission financially through payment of some of their laboratory tests, service charge among others.
He said payment for such services put a lot of financial burden on the parents of the children, “so our effort is to support and also pay for maintenance cost to ensure the ward remained in good condition.”
“When little Breanna was alive, she was mostly admitted to the isolation ward at Rebecca Akufo-Addo PICU for intensive care and wished that her NGO, adopt the ward to be named after her so that children living with cancer benefit from the facility,” he added.