By Dennis Peprah
Sunyani, (Bono), Jan. 23, GNA – The Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) hospital in the Sunyani Metropolis has honoured outstanding staff and health workers for their hard work and dedicated services in 2024.
The awardees were picked from the various departments and units of the hospital, and they received citations and well framed photographs of themselves at a thanksgiving service held at the hospital’s premises in Sunyani.
In a sermon, Pastor Maxwell Obour Boateng Awuah, the President of the Midwest Ghana Conference of the SDA Church and the Board Chair of the Hospital commended the awardees for their hard work.
He said the health work was a divine call and urged, especially health workers of the facility to serve with compassion, humility, diligence and confidence, to improve quality health outcomes.
Pastor Awuah reminded the nurses and other personnel that they were not only health workers, but also comforters and asked them to always remain sensitive to the plight of their clients and worked to touch their hearts.
He also cautioned them against the extensive use of social media in working hours and urged them to use the internet productively to improve quality healthcare delivery.
“We must also try and sacrifice our time for our clients because they look on us to live”, Pastor Awuah stated.
Mr Enoch Nketia, the Administrator of the Hospital, said the facility had chalked significant successes, saying it had not recorded any maternal death in the past four years.
Additionally, the facility recorded more than 700,000 Out-Patient Department (OPD) cases between 2014 and 2024.
Established in 2005 with only four hospital beds, Mr Nketia said the facility now had 96 beds, standard emergency ward, antenatal clinic, and maternity ward, female and male wards, records and health information unit, theatre, laboratory, accounts, eye and physiotherapy units.
In all, he said the facility had 15 private wards and three consulting rooms, saying its pathology unit also offered histopathology, cancer diagnosis and cytology.
GNA