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KATH takes measures to provide critical facilities | 20th August, 2014

The management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) says it is taking measures to provide critically- needed equipment and facilities through public-private partnership (PPP) arrangement.

This is to assuage the negative impact of the dwindling national budgetary support.

Mr Isaiah Offeh Gyimah, Acting Chief Executive, said they had already been in talks with a number of individuals and organisations.

The idea is to get them to fund the supply of vital medical equipment either by way of outright donation, or through the Build, Operate and Transfer scheme.

Speaking at a mid-year performance review meeting of the hospital in Kumasi, he said partnerships arrangements were also being explored for the development of a number of facilities.

These include the construction of a 134-bed hostel to provide comfortable and safe accommodation for relatives of in-patients, washrooms for visitors and guests, sinking of additional boreholes and water tanker.

Mr Gyimah also spoke of anon-going discussion with a private investor to establish a central diagnostic centre to enhance the quality and range of investigations done at the facility.

He encouraged all units and directorates of the hospital to use their links to mobilise extra resources for improved clinical care, saying, this had become necessary given the increasing difficulty of meeting the financial and logistical obligations from internal and state resources.

 To help deepen staff ownership and engender wider staff involvement in the running of the hospital, he said a number of special committees with membership drawn from the rank and file had been formed to handle various aspects of its operations.

These committees are expected to help diagnose, recommend and oversee the implementation of a range of interventions to raise the quality of clinical care, operational efficiency and revenue mobilisation.

Mr Gyimah announced the setting up of an epidemic preparedness committee to oversee the hospitals readiness towards the management of all infectious diseases including the dreaded Ebola viral disease.

A training of staff had begun and flyers developed to educate staff and the general public on the viral haemorrhagic fever. Additionally, they have taken delivery of a quantity of personal protective clothing. 

Mr Gyimah reminded the healthworkers to observe fully all the infection prevention and control protocols at the hospital to save them and other patients from the scourge in the event of an outbreak of the deadliest disease known to affect humans.

GNA

 

     
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