Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), the nation\u2019s second largest referral facility, is to build a US$300 million medical centre of excellence \u2013 to provide up-to-date clinical services.<\/p>\n
The 20-storey structure to be known as \u201cKATH Tower\u201d would be constructed under a public-private partnership arrangement.<\/p>\n
Dr. Joseph Akpaloo, the Chief Executive, who broke the news indicated that it was going to be a joint venture between the hospital and Kudaar Ark Investment Limited.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a thanksgiving durbar held in Kumasi, he said all was about set for the project to take off, in the coming year.<\/p>\n
He also hinted of plans to speed up work on a hostel to provide decent accommodation for relatives of patients on admission at the hospital and a nurses\u2019 flats at Bantama.<\/p>\n
There would also be the replacement of old equipment, he added.<\/p>\n
Dr. Akpaloo, however, reminded the workers that the facility could achieve its corporate vision only when they were disciplined, customer-centred and avoided waste in system.<\/p>\n
The management would therefore continue to take measures to ensure discipline and improve work ethics through strict analysis of the biometric and fingerprint attendance registration system, which it had introduced.<\/p>\n
He told the meeting that despite the challenges, the hospital was able to achieve significant progress.<\/p>\n
He cited the replacement of eight lifts at the old \u2018Gee\u2019 blocks, installation of two computerized tomography (CT) scans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine, the repair of ventilators and patient monitors.<\/p>\n
The hospital was also, accredited during the year, as the African Training Centre by the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists for the training of anaesthetists in the continent.<\/p>\n
Again, it became the first medical establishment in West Africa to perform craniotomy and frontal advancement for a child suffering from coronal-sagittal cranionsynostosis.<\/p>\n
The year, additionally, saw the start of work on a US$4.5 million ultra-modern sickle cell and blood centre by the Sickle Cell Foundation with funding from the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC).<\/p>\n
Dr. Akpaloo, said a \u20ac175,000 medical incinerator with the capacity to burn 400 kilograms of waste was also constructed with support from the German Agency for Technical Co-operation (GIZ).<\/p>\n
He applauded the hospital\u2019s board, management and staff for the hard work which had helped to improve the quality of healthcare to patients.<\/p>\n
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Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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