By Dorothy Frances Ward
Kumasi, March 28. GNA – The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), the second largest referral facility in the country continues to make significant transformation in medical care, 70 years since its establishment.
Prof. Otchere Addai-Mensah, the Chief Executive Officer, who made the observation, said the hospital was committed to the enhancement of sub-specialist and super specialist care outcomes, training and research in Africa.
He was speaking at the 2024 End of Year Performance Review Conference of the hospital in Kumasi.
The Conference was on the theme “70- years of impacting lives through Specialist Clinical Services, Training and Research: Celebrating the Past and Repositioning for the Future.”
The CEO said in spite of the numerous challenges the hospital was facing, they had worked hard to contribute to remarkable growth in the facility.
The facility continues to receive referrals from 12 other regions in the middle and northern belts of the country.
Prof. Addai-Mensah stated that several millions of Ghana Cedis realised from internally generated funds of the hospital had been used to upgrade infrastructure.
He said that the dialysis centre, the main theatre and the physiotherapy centre had all been renovated to improve service delivery.
Additionally, tremendous improvements were made in pharmaceutical services by constructing a GHC 43 million pharmacy complex with several critical equipment needed for the provision of specialist services acquired.
He paid glowing tribute to the Asantehene for spearheading the Heal Komfo Anokye Project which he said would transform KATH into a modern in-patient facility in Africa.
The hospital’s in-patient satisfactory rate, according to him, had improved with the support of stakeholders, adding that it had moved from 80.7 per cent in 2022 to 85.5 in 2024.
He called on management, stakeholders and the staff to work hard and give off their best in making KATH a modern tertiary centre.
Prof. Christian Agyare, Provost of College of Health Sciences at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), said KATH would stick to the hospital’s standards of professionalism to give quality outcomes.
This will reduce the need to travel abroad for specialist healthcare, he emphasised.
GNA
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