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Dr. Daniel Asare, CEO of Korle Bu, retires
Starting Thursday 3 September 2020, the Director of Medical Affairs of Korle Bu University Hospital (KBTH), Dr. Ali Samba, will serve as Executive Director of the hospital until a new substantive Director General is appointed.
This follows the end of Dr. Daniel Asare’s tenure as executive director of the hospital.
In a press release dated August 31, 2020, signed and issued by the Hospital’s Acting Chairman of the Board, Jerry Ahmed Shaid, the hospital’s Board of Directors asked the staff to offer Dr. Samba the “necessary support to enable him drive the agenda of providing excellent health care. “
“The Board wishes to extend its warmest greetings and thanks to the outgoing CEP and to wish him the best in his future endeavors.
Dr. Asare replaced Dr. Samuel Asiamah, who was the interim CEO after Dr. Felix Anyaa left the position.
Prior to his appointment, he served as CEO of Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH) in the Central Region.
Dr. Daniel Asare in June 2020 tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), went through the necessary protocols and received treatment.
During his tenure as CEO, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, in collaboration with Transplant Links UK, performed a successful kidney transplant for four kidney disease patients in a breakthrough in local medical practice.
The KBTH transplant team was led by surgeons Dr. Bernard Morton and Dr. James Edward Mensah, and kidney specialists Dr. Vincent Bioma and Dr. Dwomoa Adu.
In total, Dr. Asare has 29 years of experience in the health service and 17 of these years in hospital management.
He was the head of the foundation of the new Brong Ahafo Regional Hospital, Sunyani and was later transferred to the Eastern Regional Hospital, Koforidua, where he skillfully transformed the hospital.
When Cape Coast Teaching Hospital was being transferred from a regional hospital to a teaching hospital, Dr. Asare was asked to facilitate the process as Executive Director.
He successfully fulfilled this mandate and the seventh group of physicians is completing this year. Graduate doctors are also being trained at CCTH.
Dr. Asare is a trained otolaryngologist at the West African College of Surgeons.
He has also studied Health Systems at the University of Leeds in the UK.
Dr. Asare successfully digitized many of the operations at CCTH before leaving the site and sent a similar experience to Korle Bu.
Some Korle Bu workers, mostly senior staff in May of this year, began to internally agitate over Dr. Asare’s retirement and argued that they were picking up signs that there were plans for Dr. Asare to extend his term at the center. of health.
Article 199 (1) establishes that: “The public official, unless otherwise provided in this Constitution, shall retire from public service upon reaching the age of sixty.”
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