…And launches 90th anniversary
The nation?s premier hospital, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) has embarked upon major infrastructural development and installation of new medical equipment to support the various units and departments of the hospital, as part of efforts to boost healthcare service delivery in the country.
The departments listed for these steps taken by the Chief Executive Officer of the hospital, Prof. Nii Otu Nartey, are the old Intensive Care Units (ICUs), the Children?s Emergency Block, the Laundry and Radiology Departments, Central Catering Service, National Blood and Transfusion Service Centre, Paediatric Surgery Unit Theater and the MRI/CT Scan Centre.
The rest are the Catering Department, the Out-Patient Department (OPD), 4th Floor of the Obstetrics and Gynecology department, and the installation of a fiber-optic cable for the hospital?s IT department.
Prof. Nartey made this known when he was addressing a gathering at the official launching of the 90th anniversary celebration and commissioning of some completed projects of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital on Tuesday in Accra.
The three old ICUs, according to the chief executive, would be refurbished by the end of the year, while new ones are under construction for the Pediatric Surgical Unit and Maternity Block.
He indicated that ICUs at the ground floor of the surgical block, the medical block, the accident block and emergency centre, are currently fully refurbished, with each unit having six beds together with new equipment.
He added that cabinet and parliamentary approval for the Trauma Centre has been given stressing that fundraising for, the Eye Center is 70 percent complete and therefore called on the government to continue to support the hospital to start and successfully complete other projects in the hospital which the CEO contends would go a long way to rejuvenate and reposition Korle Bu as the Nerve Centre for healthcare in the West Africa sub-region.
According to him, since the establishment of the hospital in 1923, it has served succeeding generations of Ghanaians in its capacity as a Centre of excellence for healthcare, calling on the staff of the hospital to continue to exhibit high sense of professionalism to put the hospital at the forefront of health care delivery in Ghana and West Africa in general.
For his part, the Deputy Minister of Health, Mr. Rojo Mettle Nunoo, who was the guest speaker, lauded the staff of the hospital for the good work done in bringing hope to the hopeless, describing the hospital as a valuable national asset which should be supported by all.
He supported the need to intensify education on the prevention of sicknesses and accidental deaths as government tried to develop health infrastructure.
The deputy minister also called on the media not to politicise health policies in the country.
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