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President Nana Akufo-Addo on Wednesday commissioned the new 60-bed Ahafo Ano Municipal Hospital, located in Tepa in the Ashanti region.
The 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 Akufo-Addo.
This follows the opening of the Upper West Regional Hospital in Wa and the Ga East Municipal Hospital in Accra, which is now one of the largest COVID19 treatment centers in the country.
The Tepa Hospital, according to the president, has been awaited for a long time and it is good that, today, the demand for a quality Municipal Hospital has become a reality, since residents and surrounding health facilities will now have access to the improved medical care of the Ahafo Ano Municipal. Hospital.
The “Ghana Hospital Project” comprises the design, construction and equipping of the Military Hospital, two Regional Hospitals and six 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 a 250-bed Regional Hospital in Sewua, Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region and a six-bed District Hospital in Twifo Praso, in the Central Region.
It also included a 60-bed district hospital in Nsawkaw, Salaga and Konongo in the Bono East, Savannah and Ashanti regions. Another 500-bed military hospital is being built in Afari, in the Ashanti region.
All these projects, the president stressed, are expected to be launched before the end of this year.
The Ahafo Ano Municipal Hospital has been built at a cost of $ 36 million and has been designed with various departments including administration, outpatient department (OPD), physiotherapy unit, pharmacy, radiology, laboratory, surgical room (operations department), emergencies and injured. and obstetrics and gynecology (maternal and child health).
The rest are central sterile supplies department; ambulance station; inpatient wards: 100-bed capacity, staff canteen, outdoor kitchen and cooking area, medical gas production unit, laundry, morgue, medical waste department, general warehouses, maintenance department, power plant , a family shelter, 20 housing units 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.
