The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, dedicated a newly built catheter laboratory for the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) in Accra yesterday and urged hospitals to think about forming alliances with private companies willing to provide and maintain such equipment in the context of a private-public partnership for a service fee.
The $1 million laboratory has a large detector, a Dyna CT, road map software, and a 3D workstation. It was supported by the Bank of Ghana as part of its corporate social responsibility.
Dr. Bawumia claimed that by making investments in such cutting-edge medical facilities, Ghana will be able to draw in and keep experienced medical workers, improve the education of local physicians and other allied health professionals, and increase the standard of care given to patients.
He called the facility the most sophisticated catheterization laboratory in the nation and said it was a beneficial contribution to Ghana's overall healthcare system.
According to the vice president, the health sector is aiming to ensure "we leave no one behind" by achieving universal health care.
To that end, he said that over the previous six years, the government had given the health sector priority and put in place a variety of measures to improve the quality of healthcare in the nation.
Gratitude
In a speech read on his behalf, the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, praised Dr. Bawumia for directing the Bank of Ghana's development of the hospital.
He noted that there has been an increase in the occurrence of disorders connected to the cardiovascular system in the nation, but it has also resulted in a shift in the population from older to younger age groups.
Hospital
Dr. Opoku Ware Ampomah, the chief executive officer of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, said the facility was improving its responsibility to its stakeholders while also bolstering internal systems, monitoring and evaluation, and performance.
The Board Chairman of the KBTH, Dr. David Nkansa-Dwamena, said in a speech that was read on his behalf that the catheter laboratory would now allow a more concise idea of the nature of a condition and also allow advanced targeting and targeted treatment that were minimally invasive and thus offer a better output.
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