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Total-Togo lends a hand to surgical emergency teams at CHU Sylvanus Olympio



The company Total-Togo, a subsidiary of the Total Group, wants to allow the Togolese population to have easy access to medical care at Sylvanus Olympio University Hospital in Lomé. She has just built a local for surgical emergency services.


 The inauguration of this new room for surgical care took place this Thursday. It was in the presence of the Director General of Total-Togo, Adrien Bechonnet and the Director General (DG) of CHU Sylvanus Olympio, Adom Wiyoou Kpao.

Built to the tune of 15 million FCFA, this new room is equipped with furniture and equipment, including operating tables, mayo table, block cabinet, suture box, boxes with laparotomy instruments, pulse oximeter, stools surgeon, stretcher, examination table, care trolley.

"By participating in the financing for the extension of the premises and by donating efficient equipment, Total Togo wishes to lend a hand to the teams of the surgical emergency service and bring a more for the well-being of the population. This action is part of our sustainable development policy. Access to health is one of the main thrusts of this policy, "said Adrien Bechonnet.

The Sylvanus Olympio CHU is a structure that hosts a large number of casualties and casualties every day. And the rapid handling of patients is a real headache for Chinese surgical emergency managers, given the limited number of premises and the rudimentary means available to the unit.

Officials of the CHU Sylvanus Olympio, did not fail to thank Total-Togo for this humanitarian gesture. They throw, in passing, a cries of distress to all the good will to save this structure of health, built since 1954, whose health infrastructures are in suffering.

Remember that this is not the first humanitarian gesture of Total-Togo Sylvanus Olympio University Hospital. In 2015, the oil company financed the refurbishment of pediatric surgery rooms at this hospital.

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