Medical Needs

Medical Equipment &
Supplies Needed

Nkwanta District Hospital

Basic Medical Equipment and Supplies Needs

  • Wheel Chairs
  • Bed Sheets
  • Pillows
  • Mosquito Nets
  • 3-Point Canes
  • Head Lamps
  • Otoscopes
  • Stool seats
  • Disposable Ear Wash Kits
  • Delivery Beds
  • Recovery Beds
  • Fetal Heart Monitors
  • Infant Bassinets
  • Microscopes
  • Urine Collectors
  • Blood Draw Tubes
  • Microscope Slide Washer
  • Lab Weight Scale
  • Sharps Containers
  • Blood Tubes Holder
  • Lab Digital Timer
  • Disposable Gloves
  • Gauzes all sizes
  • Centrifuge
  • Dextro-Stix
  • Paper Towels and Dispensers
  • Waste Baskets
  • Red Bags
  • Eye Protectors
  • Industrial Washer & Dryer
  • I V Poles
  • Blue Bed Pads
  • Examination Tables
  • Tablet Counting Tray
  • Computers
  • Motor Scooter

List of Medical Supplies & Instruments Needed
Supplies

  • Glucometers
  • Blood Lancets
  • Intravenous administration sets
  • Blood transfusion sets
  • Medications/solution irrigations
  • Medications/IV solutions
  • Medications sterile Water for injections
  • Centrifuge
  • Intravenous Administration Set Secondary set
  • Intravenous Administration IV set w/flush device
  • Gauze, Assorted sizes non-sterile and sterile
  • Cold packs, instant cold pack
  • Cold packs, Eye care stay dry ice pack
  • Supports, Neonatal IV support
  • Cold packs, bilateral facial packs
  • Splints assorted wrist arm shoulder etc
  • Gloves, Examination Latex: small, medium and large
  • First Aid kits, BP Apparatus, stethoscope
  • Foleys catheters various sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24
  • Surgical facial masks - disposables
  • Surgical caps
  • OR Scrubs All Sizes
  • Povidine and surgical solutions and scrubs
  • Bandage various sizes 2", 3", 4"
  • Bandage POP various sizes
  • Kurlix Bandage various sizes
  • Surgical sutures: Vicryl various sizes,
  • Chromic Catgut various sizes, Catgut Plain, 
  • Nylon and Silk Sutures
  • Disinfectant tablets e.g. Chlorine, Haz tab etc
  • Elastic bandages
  • Feeding/Rhyles tubes various sizes
  • Intravenous cannulas - various sizes
  • Plaster adhesive and surgical plaster for dressings
  • Scalp vein needles/Butterfly needles various sizes
  • Skin traction kits various sizes
  • Sofra tulle/Vaseline dressing gauze
  • Alcohol Wipes
  • Medical Alert ID Bracelets
  • Nebulizers
  • Anesthesia Equipment and Drugs

 

Monitors:

  • Electrocardiogram (ECG) Machines
  • Pulseoxymeters
  • Laryngoscopes with Blades
  • Weighing Scales [Floor one] for Adults
  • Weighing Scales for Neonates
  • Radiant Warmers with Resuscitation Stand/tables  
  • Suction machines 
  • Endotrachial tubes
  • Laryngeal Mask Airways [LMA]
  • Fast Track Laryngeal Mask Airways
  • Anesthesia machine

 


Drugs

  • Analgesics Injectables
  • Analgesics Tablets
  • Antibiotics and antimicrobials
  • Eye drops and Ear drops
  • Pain relievers and fever relievers
  • Sporonox
  • Nizarol
  • Antiepileptics
  • Imodium
  • Hydrocortisone
  • Multivitamins
  • Sedalyn Cough Infant and Adult Etc.

 

 

Muscle Relaxants and Reversals:

  • Suxamethonium
  • Pancuronium
  • Vecuronium
  • Galamine
  • Pyrisdostigmine
  • Atropine
  • Norcuronium
  • Atracurium
  • Tubocurarine
  • Neostigmine
  • Endophorium
  • Glycopyrirate


Local Anaesthetics:


  • Lidocaine with or without Adrenaline
  • Ropivacain
  • Bupivacain
  • Mepivacain

Opiods & Antagonists

  • Ketorolac
  • Alfentanil
  • Pentazocine
  • Naloxone
  • Nalorphine
  • Fentanyl
  • Sulfentanil
  • Pethidine
  • Nalbuphine

  

Intravenous Inductionals:

  • Ketamine
  • Etomidate
  • Propofol
  • Thiopentone
  • Methohexitone

Inhalationals:

  • Halothane
  • Desflurane
  • Sevoflurane
  • Isoflurane
  • Enflurane

 

Benzodiazepines & Others:

  • Midazolam
  • Lorezepain
  • Odansetron
  • Calcium Chloride
  • Potassium Citrate
  • Cimetidine
  • Hydralazine
  • Diazepam
  • Flumazenil
  • Promethazine
  • Potassium [KC1]
  • Ramitidine
  • Magnesium Sulphate

 

 

Basic Surgical Tools

 

  • Tyrell hook 5" blunt - 10
  • 1x2 Tissue forceps 4" -10
  • Dressing forceps - 10
  • Yankaver Sunction Tube - 5
  • Gile Mosquito Forceps 5.3" - 10
  • Mosquito forceps 5" straight - 10
  • Mosquito forceps 5: curved - 10
  • Adson's tooth dissecting forceps 43/4 - 10
  • Adson's dressing [plain] forceps 43/4 - 10
  • Mayo-Hagar needle holder 61/2 - 4
  • Mayo Hagar needle holder 51/2 - 4
  • Webster needle holder 43/4 - 4
  • Senn Retractor Blunt 61/4 - 2
  • Mayo Dissecting scissors curved 51/2 - 5
  • Mayo dissecting scissors straight - 51/2 - 5
  • Metzenbaun scissors 7" curved - 5
  • Balfour Abdominal Retractor - 2
  • Weitlaner Retractor 6.5" - 2
  • Finschictto Retractor - 2

                                   

 

Basic Surgical Supplies

  • Fiber Optic Headlight - 5
  • Patient monitor
  • Malis Bipolar coagulator with footswitch
  • Instrument table - 2
  • Millins bladder retractor
  • Laryngoscope handles
  • Endotrachial tubes sizes 6, 7, 7.5, 8, 8.5 - 50 each
  • Laryngealmasks sizes- 2, 2.5, 4, 5
  • Facemasks
  • Standard trauma set
  • Allen adjustable length stirrups - 1 pair
  • Pulse oximeters - 2
  • Diathermy machine with accessories
  • Laryngoscopes with blade sizes 1, 2, 3, 4
  • Sphygmomanometers - 10
  • Oropharyngeal airways

 

 

Nwanta District Hospital Volta Region - Ghana


List of Basic General Instruments

 

Thyroid Extras

  • Joll's thyroid retractor      (1)
  • Enucleate - plain            (1)
  • Enucleate - fenestrated     (1)
  • Thyroid forceps (fine)       (10)
  • Langenbecks retractor      (2)


Resection and Anastomosis

  • Payr's crushing clamps
  • Doyen's soft intestinal clamp straight/curved
  • Lanes twin stomach clamp
 


Hand Retractors


  • Langenbeck retractor
  • Czerny's retractors
  • Morris retractor
  • Kelly retractor
  • Deavers retractor
  • Pelvic retractor

 


Self-Retaining Retractors

  • Pozzi's self retaining retractor with third blade
  • Millins bladder retractor
  • Joll's thyroid retractor
  • West mastoid retractor
  • Pelvic self-retaining retractor

Hook Retractor (Various)

  • Double hook retractor blunt
  • Single hook retractor

Bard Parker Handle (Blade)

  • No 4 blades 20, 21,22,23,24
  • No 3, 5 or 7 blade 10,11,12,15

 

COLLIN'S WOOD STEWARDS HERNIA RING

          GENERAL SET OF INSTRUMENTS

QUANTITY

 

1

2

3

4

5

           Rampleys sponge holding forceps

6

6

6

6

6

           Mayo Hagar needle holder

2

2

2

2

2

           Lanes tissue forceps

2

2

2

2

2

           Mosquito artery forceps curved

6

6

6

6

6

           Mosquito artery forceps straight

6

6

6

6

6

           (Spencer wells) medium artery forceps straight

10

10

10

10

10

           Long curved artery forceps (Robert)

6

6

6

6

6

           Long artery forceps straight

4

4

4

4

4

           Stiles tissue forceps (short)

2

2

2

2

2

           Allis tissue forceps (short)

4

4

4

4

4

           Allis tissue forceps (long)

4

4

4

4

4

           Babcock tissue forceps

4

4

4

4

4

           Backhauls and cross action towel clips

10

10

10

10

10

           Langenbecks retractor

2

2

2

2

2

           Czerny's retractor

2

2

2

2

2

           Intestinal depressor

1

1

1

1

1

           Long toothed dissecting forceps

2

2

2

2

2

           Long-non-toothed dissecting forceps

2

2

2

2

2

           Listers sinus forceps (long)

1

1

1

1

1

           Listers sinus (short)

1

1

1

1

1

           Very long non-toothed dissecting forceps 10"

1

1

1

1

1

           Short non-toothed dissecting forceps

1

1

1

1

1

           Bard parker handle no 4

1