KATH to construct $300 million medical centre for clinical services 

The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) is to build a 300 million dollar medical centre of excellence intended to provide up-to-date clinical services. 

The 20-storey structure to be known as “KATH Tower” would be constructed under a public-private partnership arrangement. 

The Chief Executive of the nation’s second largest referral facility, Dr. Joseph Akpaloo, who broke the news indicated that it will to be a joint venture between the hospital and Kudaar Ark Investment Limited. 

Speaking at a thanksgiving durbar held in Kumasi, Dr. Joseph Akpaloo said all is set for the project to take off next year. 

He also hinted of plans to speed up work on a hostel to provide decent accommodation for relatives of patients on admission at the hospital and nurses’ flats at Bantama. Old equipment will be replaced. 

Dr. Akpaloo, however, reminded the workers that the facility could achieve its corporate vision only when they were disciplined, customer-centred and avoid waste in system. 

The management will therefore, continue to take measures to ensure discipline and improve work ethics through strict analysis of the biometric and fingerprint attendance registration system, which it has introduced. 

He told the meeting that despite the challenges, the hospital was able to achieve significant progress.  

The hospital was also, accredited during the year, as the African Training Centre by the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists for the training of anaesthetists on the continent.. 

The year, additionally, saw the start of work on a 4.5 million ultra-modern sickle cell and blood centre by the Sickle Cell Foundation with funding from the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation.

GBC