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On Friday, President Nana Akufo-Addo commissioned the 60-bed Tain District Hospital, located in Nsawkaw, Tain, in the East Bono Region.
This hospital, started by former President John Agyekum Kufuor in 2008 as part of the ‘Ghana Hospital Project’, is the fourth hospital of its kind commissioned by the President.
It follows the opening of the Upper West Regional Hospital, in Wa, the Ga East Municipal Hospital, in Accra, which is now one of the most important Covid-19 Treatment Centers in the country, and the Ahafo Ano Municipal Hospital.
The “Ghana Hospital Project” involves the design, construction and equipping of one (1) Military Hospital, two (2) Regional Hospitals and six (6) District Hospitals in Ghana, with a project cost of $ 339 million . It is part of the broader objective of providing infrastructure for the provision of effective health care to citizens.
Other hospitals being built under this Project are the 250-bed Regional Hospital in Sewua in the Bosomtwe District; Municipal Hospital with 60 beds in Salaga in the municipality of Gonja Oriental; 60-bed Municipal Hospital in Konongo in the central municipality of Asante Akim; and the 60-bed District Hospital at Twifo Praso in the Twifo / Atti-Morkwa District.
All of these projects, the president stressed, are all expected to be commissioned before the end of this year.
The Tain District Hospital has been built at a cost of $ 36.6 million and has been designed with multiple departments, including administration; outpatient department (OPD); physiotherapy unit; pharmacy; radiology; laboratory; operating room (department of operations); emergency and sinister; and obstetrics and gynecology (maternal and child health).
The rest are central sterile supplies department; ambulance station; hospitalization wards: capacity for 100 beds; staff dining room; kitchen and outdoor cooking area; medical gas production unit; laundry; mortuary; medical waste department; general stores; Maintenance department; power plant; family shelter; 14 staff dwellings; and a mini market.
In addition, the Hospital has been equipped with modern medical equipment, such as X-ray machines, ultrasound machines, fully equipped operating room, medical gases, and patient monitors.
It also has a medical waste treatment plant, a power plant, a water treatment plant, a central air conditioning system and an anaerobic sewage treatment plant.
To the chiefs and people of Nsawkaw, President Akufo-Addo reiterated his commitment to improving access to quality and essential health services through the provision of the necessary health infrastructure, equipment and logistics, including the deployment of the appropriate technology, as part of our drive to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
He urged the administrators of the company to adopt and strengthen the culture of maintenance.
“This building has come at great cost to our nation, and we should be in a position, some ten years later, to see it still in good condition. It shouldn’t fall into the way that various institutions like this one in Ghana have gone. The leadership of this facility must set an example for its regular and constant maintenance, and will be responsible for it, “he added.
