Dr. Opoku Ware Ampomah has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.
This was made known in a letter the Presidency wrote to the Minister of Health, signed by Nana Bediatuo Asante, Secretary to the President and sighted by citinewsroom.com.
The President of the Republic has nominated Dr. Opoku Ware Ampomah for appointment as the Chief Executive of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.”
The Presidency further directed the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, to take the “necessary steps to regularise the said appointment in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Ghana Health Service and the Teaching Hospitals Act, 1996 (Act 525).”
Dr. Ampomah takes over from Dr. Daniel Asare whose tenure of office ended on September 3, 2020.
“The Board of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital wishes to inform its cherished staff and the general public that the term of office of Dr. Daniel Asare, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Hospital, comes to an end with effect from 3rd September 2020,” the Board of the Hospital added in an earlier statement.
The statement, signed by the Acting Board Chairman of the Hospital, Jerry Ahmed Shaib, asked Dr. Ali Samba, the Director of Medical Affairs, to act as CEO of the hospital until a substantive appointment is made.
Dr. Opoku Ware Ampomah is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon and the Director of the National Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Burns Centre at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.
He is a proud alumnus of the Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School (PRESEC), graduating as the Best O’ Level Science Scholar in 1987.
Some of his many academic achievements after that include, the Overall Best Candidate in West Africa for the Final Exam in Plastic Surgery Part II in 2005, the first West African based practitioner to be the recipient of the prestigious Intercollegiate Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons with specialty in Plastic Surgery.
Source:Fiilafmonline/CitiNews
