The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has completed the construction of 47 units flats for House Officers at Bantama Staff Quarters in Kumasi at the cost of GH¢5 million.
The hospital spends huge sums of money in renting accommodation for medical staff, and in some cases far away from the hospital, contrary to the standard norm for medical staff to stay near to the health facilities where they work.
Dr. Oheneba Owusu-Danso, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of KATH, who assisted the Board Chairman of the hospital, Ambassador Nana Effah Apenteng, recently to commission the block at Bantama in Kumasi, said the teaching hospital was excited that junior doctors can now have the security of accommodation and the peace of mind to work.
The CEO said the Technical Services Department of the hospital had been tasked to take proper care of the edifice through regular maintenance, while a private security company has been engaged to provide 24-hour surveillance as part of security measures. A cleaning company has also been commissioned to ensure that the place is kept clean at all times.
Dr. Owusu-Danso, who later addressed the annual Thanksgiving Service and Staff Reception of the hospital at the forecourt of the Oncology Department, stated that over GH¢8 million worth of equipment was procured by the hospital in the year 2020 alone.
He said a 24-hour pharmacy had also become operational to provide a bouquet of high quality pharmaceutical and other related services to patients and the public to “ease the burden of relatives of patients having to walk long distances to surrounding pharmacies to access non-insured medicines and other vital non-medicine items for the treatment of their relations and loved ones.”
Major equipment, including a 128-slice Siemens C.T. scan, two C-Arms, electro convulsive therapy (ECT) machine, two operating theatre tables, and an electronic induction casting machine were also procured for the various clinical directorates through the use of the hospital’s Internally Generated Fund (IGF) in the year 2020.
Dr. Owusu-Danso said the entire KATH fraternity eagerly looked up to the reconstruction and completion of the hospital’s abandoned Maternity and Children’s block to “help create more space for the effective set up of more specialised services by the various directorates.”
On COVID-19, the CEO advised: “Let us all re-dedicate ourselves to the strict observance of all the safety protocols, including the wearing of facemasks, regular washing of our hands with soap under running water, coughing/sneezing into tissue for immediate and hygienic disposal, and keeping the appropriate distance from each other.”
From Thomas Agbenyegah Adzey
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