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General news for Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Source: rainbowradioonline.com
2020-09-30
President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday, September 30, 2020, commissioned the sixty-bed Ahafo Ano Municipal Hospital, located in Tepa, Ashanti Region.
This hospital, started by former President John Agyekum Kufuor in 2008 as part of the ‘Ghana Hospitals Project’, is the third hospital of its kind commissioned by President Akufo-Addo following the opening of the Upper West Regional Hospital, in Wa, and Ga East. Municipal Hospital, in Accra, which is now one of the most important COVID19 Treatment Centers in the country.
This Hospital, according to the president, was highly anticipated in Tepa, and it is good that, today, the demand for a quality Municipal Hospital has come true, as residents and surrounding health facilities will now have access to better care doctor from the Municipal Hospital of Ahafo Ano.
The “Ghana Hospitals 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 two hundred fifty (250) bed Regional Hospital in Sewua, Kumasi, Ashanti Region; the sixty (6) bed District Hospital in Twifo Praso, in the Central Region; the sixty (60) bed District Hospital in Nsawkaw, in the East Bono Region; the sixty (60) bed District Hospital in Salaga, Savannah Region; the sixty (60) bed District Hospital in Konongo, Ashanti Region; and the five hundred (500) bed Military Hospital in Afari, again, in the Ashanti region.
All of these projects, the president stressed, are all expected to be commissioned before the end of this year.
The Ahafo Ano Municipal Hospital has been built at a cost of thirty-six million US dollars (US $ 36 million), and has been designed with various departments including administration; outpatient department (OPD); physiotherapy unit; pharmacy; radiology; laboratory; operating room (operations dep.); emergency and sinister; and obstetrics and gynecology (maternal and child health).
The rest are central sterile supplies department; ambulance station; hospital wards: capacity for 100 beds; staff dining room; kitchen and outdoor cooking area; medicinal gas production unit; laundry; mortuary; medical waste department; general stores; Maintenance department; electric power plant; family shelter; 20 dwellings for staff; 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 Tepa, President Akufo-Addo reiterated his commitment to improve access to essential and quality health services through the provision of the necessary health infrastructure, equipment and logistics, including the deployment of 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 various institutions like this have gone in Ghana. The leadership of this facility must set the example for its regular and constant maintenance, and will be responsible for it, “he added.
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