The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, has invested an amount of GH¢30 million to provide ultra-modern equipment and retool its operations.
This has helped to revamp the operations of the hospital, the second-largest referral facility in the country built resilience in its quest to provide quality, affordable and accessible healthcare.
Dr Oheneba Owusu-Danso, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of KATH, said these at the hospital’s 2021 Performance Review meeting in Kumasi.
The theme for the meeting was, “Building a resilient and affordable healthcare system; the role of Teaching Hospitals and the Healthcare Practitioner.”
The meeting afforded participants the platform to formally and comprehensively access the collective performance of the various directorates and units, against set targets and devise strategies to address the challenges.
It also gave them the opportunity to introduce the new board to the staff of KATH.
Dr Owusu-Danso pointed out that the new equipment was making a remarkable difference in the ability to provide a broader range of specialist care to the public and the training of healthcare professionals in the country.
He mentioned some of the units, which were renovated and retooled as the maternity block, the KATH guest house, reconstruction and asphalting of the hospital’s roads and car parks, the construction of a paediatric care unit and the construction of a four-story building for officers.
Additionally, some of the machines purchased were Surgical Plants, two Oxygen plants with various accessories, an Electroconvulsive Therapy machine, Endoscopic suits for medical directorates, 128 slice Siemens CT scan and UV – VIS Spectrophotometer.
He mentioned some of the units, which were renovated and retooled as the maternity block, the KATH guest house, reconstruction and asphalting of the hospital’s roads and car parks, the construction of a paediatric care unit and the construction of a four-story building for officers.
Additionally, some of the machines purchased were Surgical Plants, two Oxygen plants with various accessories, an Electroconvulsive Therapy machine, Endoscopic suits for medical directorates, 128 slice Siemens CT scan and UV – VIS Spectrophotometer.
