Work on the Maternity and Children’s Block at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), which has been abandoned for 43 years, will resume in January next year, the Chief Executive Officer of KATH, Dr Oheneba Owusu-Danso, has said.
He said that followed the procurement of €138 million funding to complete the project and commended the government for securing the funding for the project.
Speaking at the annual thanksgiving and staff awards ceremony of the hospital in Kumasi last Friday, Dr Owusu-Danso said work on the block had been awarded to Contracta UK Ltd and that it was expected to be completed within 30 months.
When completed, he explained, the project would be the largest investment made in the expansion of the hospital since its construction in 1955.
He added that the facility would help resolve or effectively reduce the worsening congestion at the hospital and its associated mortalities.
Dr Owusu-Danso said the completion of the project would complement the gains made from the Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II Centre donated by the First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, to the hospital two years ago.
He described 2019 as a year of “achievements and feats” for the hospital, as the facility chalked up a lot of milestones in the course of the year.
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