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Limited land space inhibiting the expansion of KATH – CEO

Kumasi, – The management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi say limited land space is inhibiting the expansion of facilities at the hospital.

Dr Oheneba Owusu-Danso, Chief Executive of KATH, said the hospital was getting a lot of investors and collaborators who were interested in bringing projects, but these had been held up due to lack of adequate land space.

Speaking to journalists after leading the management members to inspect some ongoing projects at the hospital, the CEO said the land for the expansion of the hospital was an important issue, which needed to be resolved quickly to make way for more projects and facilities for the hospital.

He explained that although the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and the government were working on securing more lands for the hospital, management was also doing its part to ensure that the process was quickened.

Dr Owusu-Danso said talks were ongoing with the military to release some of the lands to the hospital to enable them to put up their projects and expand the facility.

Dr Owusu-Danso expressed the hope that by the end of the year the land issues would have been resolved to enable expansion of the facilities of the second largest referral hospital in Ghana.

Emphasizing how serious the land issue was, he said due to lack of space, management had to use the top floor of one of the blocks to construct the new Assisted Reproductive Therapy Center, which was nearing completion.

“With the expansion of the psychiatric services, space is restricted, we are currently doing a maximum of 13 beds, we want to expand it into a 30-40 bed facility and the only way is to raise another block on top of the existing block.

The multipurpose centre for the management of cleft patients and training of nurses and doctors for the whole of the African region, the hospital has had to sacrifice a bungalow to get a small land area for them to construct a six-floor structure.

If there was enough land the cost of construction could have been much less”, he said.

Dr Owusu-Danso explained to the media that the contractor at the site for the new Children and Maternity block had requested an additional land area so that the drainage systems could be done downstream, adding that if additional land was acquired it would ease the technical management of waste.

The team of management members also visited ongoing projects, including the expansion works on the Dialysis Center from five to 25-bed capacity facility and the construction of a 190-bed capacity Patient-Relative Hostel for the hospital.

Source: Ghana News Agency

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