By Samuel Ofori Boateng
Kumasi, Nov. 25, GNA – Work has begun on a GHc 43 million centralized pharmacy project for the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi.
The four-storey project would provide adequate space for the management of pharmaceutical products and services at Ghana’s second largest health facility.
It would be the first of its kind in the 70 year history of the hospital.
Professor Otchere Addai-Mensah, Chief Executive Officer of the hospital, speaking at the sod-cutting ceremony, said the project signified a transformative step in the delivery of specialist pharmaceutical services and healthcare in the operational areas of the hospital.
The project, he said, formed part of the various interventions aimed at providing timely, comprehensive and quality healthcare services to patients who visited the facility.
“Beyond its functionality, the project is a testament to our collective determination to meet the challenges in healthcare delivery,” Prof Addai Mensah emphasized.
The Pharmaceutical complex would be funded entirely from the Internally Generated Funds of the hospital derived from its Drug Revolving Fund.
The complex would have a warehouse, total parental nutrition unit, drug information and pharmaco-vigilance units, as well as compounding or production unit, among other units.
GNA