My name is Sahid Victor Ndoko. Growing up as a boy, saving peoples life has been my dream. After secondary school, I decided to become a health officer to begin this dream of saving lives. During my clinical year, one of my happiest moment is seeing patients that were admitted discharged, happy and going home. The opposite was seeing patients die.
During these period, I was blessed to work with some of the best Doctors in the country. One of the thought that was coming to my head was why are these patients dying? A lot of questions were running in my mind like whose fault is this? What is killing them? Is it that the doctors are not working well? Or is it the machines? And so on.
Me being a boy I was very curious especially with machines, so I started opening the smaller ones to know how it was made and learn more.
Finally, the course came to an end I was fortunate to work as a health officer at the Adventist Health System, Waterloo Hospital where I was opportune to see some medical equipment. One of the challenges then was that the hospital was losing a lot of money to maintenance these machines. Also, most of the technicians that were coming ended up destroying some of the machine because they were not trained in that area. I got to know this because I was following up with the hospital maintenance team.
Thus hearing about a scholarship to go and learn about these machines gave me great joy. During studies, some of my questions I was posing started having answers and one was that most of the time the doctors were doing their best but the machines were not working well thus giving false results. This answer came about as a result of me knowing the machines like how they work on which principle, trouble shooting skills, installation, repair and maintenance, proper use of the machine etc.
The 3 year Biomedical engineering or BMET program, based at Valley View University in Ghana, has brought a big change thus turning junk for Jesus into gem for Jesus as stated by Dr. Ben one of our facilitators during our graduation ceremony. I have been charged with a very big responsibility to make sure that our equipment in the hospitals are always available and working. It’s actually a big task but with Christ you can do all things.
One of my challenge is tools. Medical machines are sophisticated in order to prevent them from being worked on by unauthorized people or unqualified technicians. They are being designed in a way that you only use a specialize tool to open most of them. Some after repair and maintenance needs to be calibrated, some if not working well needs to be analyzed before calibration. And to do all of these involves special tools and analyzers which I don’t have.
My future plan for the hospital is to open a biomedical engineering service to the country as a whole to help other institutions get access to a qualified personnel to work on their medical equipment.
So your donations will help me complete this task of saving life by turning junk for Jesus into gems for Jesus.
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