The Kumasi Military Hospital will be ready in September

General News of Monday, March 18, 2019

Source: Graphic.com.gh

2019-03-18

Unless there are last-minute problems, the Kumasi Military Hospital should be completed and handed over to the government in September of this year.

With 70% of the work – including a completed administrative block – already completed on the 500-bed project, officials believe that the handover schedule in September 2019 is achievable.

Engineers, craftsmen and workers on the 260,000 m² site are currently working on finishing elements mainly, while the project – considered to have the character of a tertiary hospital – is finally taking shape.

According to Euroget De-invest, project manager at Euroget De-invest, Islam Sharawy said the remaining 30% concerned the completion of the main physical infrastructure, equipment installation, construction of the project. an internal road network of six kilometers and landscaping.

Last Saturday, he told the Daily Graphic on the Afari website that the different categories of the workforce of 650 people were constantly engaged on the site, including weekends, in order to meet the delivery schedule.

Accelerated schedule

On the site last Saturday, the work of the craftsmen – painters, plumbers, carpenters, manufacturers and electricians – characterized the occupied environment and seemed to give more weight to the temporal forecasts of entrepreneurs.

Mr. Sharawy congratulated the Africa Building Partners subcontractors for their diligent work since their arrival in November 2018.

He said that 80% of the hospital's medical equipment had already arrived in Ghana and that it would be transported from warehouses in Tema when the relevant components of the project were completed.

Designed to be a reference facility to ease the burden of Komfo Anokye University Hospital, the military hospital will have all the elements of a medical center, including 17 specialized clinics, pharmacy units, theaters, laboratories, kitchens, a morgue.

In addition, it will have water treatment facilities, sewage and medical waste, as well as an internal gas generation system where oxygen will be treated from fresh air and distributed to the units concerned.

It has a car park that can hold 750 vehicles at a time, a heliport to receive emergencies by helicopter and seven different accommodations for staff.

guarantee

In a rather impressive way, the contractors have given a three-year warranty and a maintenance contract for equipment and facilities with the hospital owners and will provide training to those concerned about the important facilities of the hospital. Hospital as part of a somewhat friendly gesture.

Mr. Sharawy compared the modestly complex form of the hospital – in terms of his capacity profile – to a teaching hospital and said that, if his staff were qualified, he should be able to take charge of the most complex of known medical problems.

But beyond that, it has already had an impact on the local economy through the employment of workers and artisans and should improve things for residents and professionals through direct and indirect jobs.

"The subcontractors will expand the road network around the hospital into dual-carriageway roads to contain the traffic expected when the hospital begins operations," Sharawy said.

"We have carried out an evaluation of the traffic on the roads around the hospital and we expect a growth of traffic along the roads.

That's why we are going to widen the roads into double cars as part of this project, "he added.

The hospital is one of nine projects undertaken by Euroget De-Invest in 10 regions.