President Nana Akufo-Addo on Wednesday commissioned the new 60-mattress Ahafo Ano Municipal Clinic, positioned in Tepa, in the Ashanti Location.
The clinic, initiated by previous President John Agyekum Kufuor in 2008 as section of the ‘Ghana Hospitals Project’, is the 3rd these Healthcare facility to be commissioned by Akufo-Addo.
It follows the opening of the Upper West Regional Medical center in Wa and the Ga East Municipal Healthcare facility, in Accra, which is now a single of the country’s foremost COVID19 Treatment method Centres.
The Tepa Healthcare facility, in accordance to the President, has been prolonged awaited and is excellent that, now, the desire for a Municipal Healthcare facility of quality has been realized, as people and surrounding health and fitness facilities will now acquire accessibility to enhanced health care from the Ahafo Ano Municipal Healthcare facility.
The “Ghana Medical center Project” requires the style and design, design and equipping of the Navy Healthcare facility, two Regional Hospitals, and 6 District Hospitals in Ghana, at a venture charge of $339 million.
It falls beneath the broader goal of offering infrastructure for the shipping of successful health care to the citizenry.
Other hospitals becoming produced underneath this Job are a 250-bed Regional Medical center in Sewua, Kumasi, in the Ashanti Location and a 6-mattress District Clinic in Twifo Praso, in the Central Region.
It also incorporated a 60-bed District Clinic at Nsawkaw, Salaga and Konongo in the Bono East, Savannah and Ashanti Locations. A further 500-bed Armed service Clinic at Afari once more, in the Ashanti Area is becoming built.
All of these tasks, the President pressured, are anticipated to be commissioned right before the finish of this yr.
The Ahafo Ano Municipal Hospital has been manufactured at a price tag of $36 million and has been developed with quite a few departments which include administration, outpatient section (OPD), physiotherapy unit, pharmacy, radiology, laboratory, surgical suite (procedure dep.), unexpected emergency & casualty and obstetrics & gynaecology (maternity and kid well being).
The relaxation are central sterile source section ambulance station inpatient wards – 100 mattress ability, personnel eating, kitchen & out of doors cooking region, professional medical gases production device, laundry, mortuary, professional medical squander division, basic stores, maintenance office, power station, relatives’ hostel, 20 employees housing models and a mini marketplace.
Moreover, the Healthcare facility has been outfitted with contemporary professional medical equipment, these kinds of as x-ray devices, ultrasound devices, thoroughly geared up running theatre, medical gases, and affected individual screens.
It also has a professional medical waste cure plant, a power station, a h2o treatment method plant, a central air conditioning method and an anaerobic sewerage therapy plant.
To the Chiefs and people today of Tepa, President Akufo-Addo reiterated his motivation to bettering access to critical and excellent overall health providers via the provision of the vital wellbeing infrastructure, devices and logistics, like the deployment of suitable technologies, as element of our drive to attaining Common Well being Protection (UHC).
He urged directors of the to embrace and fortify the society of servicing.
“This edifice has been put at wonderful price to our country, and we should really be in the place, some ten several years down the line, to see it continue to in excellent condition. It should not slide in the means in which a number of institutions like this in Ghana have absent.
“The management of this facility must established the instance for its periodic and frequent upkeep, and will be held accountable for this,” he included.
