The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has held its 2024 mid-year performance review conference to evaluate the performance of the various departments of the hospital in the first half of the year.
The theme for the review conference was: “The New KATH Agenda: Recalibrating Efforts for Enhanced Health Service Outcomes: The Role of Stakeholders.”
Addressing the conference, Prof. Otchere Addai-Mensah, Chief Executive Officer of KATH, expressed his gratitude to all stakeholders, whose contributions have helped to bring the hospital this far.
He noted that there have been noticeable improvements in the infrastructure base and the operational environment and output of the hospital during the period under review.
Prof. Addai-Mensah said the facility also witnessed significant progress in the execution of a number of projects meant to enhance the delivery of quality specialist clinical care to the public.
He said work on the comprehensive renovation of the hospital’s Physiotherapy Centre and the laundry unit was successfully completed at the cost of over GHc1.6 million and GHc1 million respectively, and that the renovation of the old Dialysis Centre and main theatre, as well as the establishment of a new 24-hour laboratory at the Family Medicine block and the Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) centre, all reached advanced stages of completion during the period under review.
Prof. Addai-Mensah further said that preparation for the commencement of the Pharmacy Complex project at the cost of GHc25 million has taken off, and the request for the award of the contract for the project is currently before the Central Tender Review Committee in Accra for consideration.
According to him, the proposed Complex, to be funded fully from the Internally Generated Fund (IGF) is expected to provide a one-stop center for the provision of specialist pharmaceutical services and training for the hospital.
The KATH CEO explained that the hospital has managed to revitalise the operations of its hospital’s Dialysis Center from less than two machines at the beginning of 2023 to seven at the end of May 2024, thus helping to expand critical dialysis care to kidney patients in the Ashanti Region and beyond.
He said three new machines have been procured at the cost of GHc1.6 million from the hospital’s IGF, while two refurbished ones were also donated by Springfield Group.
As a result of the government’s policy to offer free treatment to a certain age bracket, the two Centers are meeting the growing demand, enabling the Dialysis Center to record over 300 sessions per month at the moment from about 80 sessions per month previously, adding that 25 new dialysis machines are needed to fully stock its centers.
The KATH CEO revealed that the hospital is in dire need of additional machines to fully meet the needs of patients and called on the government, corporate bodies, civil society, and the public to support.
Mr. Frederick Oppong, Head of Estate Unit, KATH, addressing the press at the “Heal KATH” Project site (“A” Block), said for the first time since its construction, the wards will have an Air Cooling system and all Mechanical Electrical Plumbing (MEP) will be concealed from the naked eye.
He further said leakages being the major problem of the GEE blocks have been treated and that each bed at the wards will have an oxygen port and announced that wards A3, and A4 are expected to be open for use by the end of September 2024.
From Oswald Pius Freiku, Kumasi
