Community
At UBT we are consistently working to positively impact the communities in which we serve. Whether it is to support the missions of UBT or to capture a personal interest or passion. UBT has been giving back to the world from its inception.
The Larbi Foundation
For over 10 years UBT has been working in conjunction with the Larbi Foundation. The Larbi Foundation works continually to help the less fortunate both at home and abroad. They do this not through financial means, but by donating supplies including food and clothing. UBT also has many active employees who volunteer their own time to help The Larbi Foundation achieve their goal to help the communities around the world.
Local Community
The youth of America has always been a great way to judge where our country is going. So at UBT we feel it is important to help young Americans as much as possible. We work with schools in our very own community to help further progress the logistics of learning. This is accomplished through donations of computer equipment, peripherals and other supporting products.
Osu Children’s Home
Not only do we take care of our local communities, but at UBT we help support our international communities as well. The Osu Children’s Home works with the Larbi Foundation which UBT directly supports. The home was setup in 1949 by a group of Ghanaians as the Child Care Society in a suburb of Accra, Ghana known as Kaneshie. They cared for orphans and other vulnerable children until 1962 when the government took over and the children were transferred to the current facilities and placed under the Department of Social Welfare.
The Osu Children’s Home is a provision of residential care which supplies education, health care and recreation to children while they are living at the home. They also provide adoption and foster care services and will help search for families to reunite orphan children. Since permanent institutional care is the last resort, in most cases, children who are not fostered, adopted or reunited with families are also assisted with looking for jobs and resettlement outside of the home after their primary education.
Future Project - UBT Africa Critical Care Development Project
The aim of this project is to take a substantial step toward addressing critical care medicine and related global health care disparities through education, training, research and developmental consultation. The public health community, infectious disease doctors and other have made and continue to make tremendous in-roads in healthcare improvement in developing countries in areas ranging from sanitation and anti-malaria campaigns to vaccination and nutrition programs. However, we are at a curious point in time where healthcare technology and innovation has moved forward in the developed world while the less developed countries are given the message the advanced medical care should not even be an option until all of the public health issues that are traditionally associated with poverty have been eradicated within those countries.
Across the African continent there are individual shining star institutions such as the University of Benin City Teaching Hospital of Nigeria where residents receive formal training and practice in an ICU setting, resuscitation medicine is rehearsed and every reasonable effort is made to manager patients who have survivable critical care illnesses. Various Countries within the continent are at different stages of development. Countries with positive track records of political and economic stability such as Ghana tend to be among the first to recognize that higher levels of care should at least be available at the national referral centers. However, the amount of resources available and attention paid to those who require critical care medicine support appears to be extremely limited.
The program will accomplish this aim by taking a team of nationally recognized experts from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and Johns Hopkins Hospital to do the following.
- Fundamentals in Critical Care Support Course (FCCS) - The FCCS course is an internationally recognized product of the SCCM whish is designed as an education and training instrument for hospitals with limited resources and which do not have full time trained critical care specialists.
- Surviving Sepsis Campaign Lectures - A collection of presentation designed to help the hospital prevent and manage septic patients.
- Safe Surgery Checklist / Hand Hygiene Presentations - World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines will be reviewed and evidence based medicine supporting information will be provided.
- Critical Care Nurse Education - Educational support targeted at critical care nurses. National assessment and analysis of critical care resources in Ghana.
