Delay in the concern of the Board of Directors of Ho University Hospital – Vice Chancellor

Regional News from Sunday, February 3, 2019

Source: ghananewsagency.org

2019-02-03

Professor John Owusu Gyapong, Vice Chancellor of the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), said he was concerned about the delay in the constitution of a council of directors. Administration for the Ho Teaching Hospital, the former Volta Regional Hospital.

At the second session of the Third Congregation of Ho University, the Vice Chancellor said that the delay in the establishment of a council to oversee the reconversion and modernization of the hospital affected medical education and training of health professionals in the Region.

He added that the hospital facilities should be modernized and equipped with appropriate management and governance structures to promote quality training of health professionals at UHAS.

However, the absence of the council had an impact on all these processes, he said, and called on the government to accelerate the implementation of its system.

Professor Gyapong said that the University had expanded its collaborations with higher education and research institutions and had asked that the infrastructure problems that it faced be solved in order to make the university more effective. operational hospital for the success of these collaborations.

He also called on the government to provide counterpart funding for China's Phase 2 grant to the construction of the university's central administration and the school of nursing and midwifery.

The Vice Chancellor has issued a call for the completion of the blocked projects of the university, including a complex of laboratories, a facility of incubation of the pharmacy school and bungalows for the staff.

Sixteen of the 337 graduates earned a master's degree in health promotion from Leeds Beckett University.