You can not force me to open a 99-bed hospital, 99% – Minister

General News of Saturday, June 15, 2019

Source: GNA

2019-06-15

The new Upper West Regional Hospital, with 160 beds, is 99% complete but will only be open when it is fully completed and staffed.

Ahmed Abo Shamaa, resident engineer at the hospital, who led an on – site inspection team, told reporters that the project was 99% complete and that he would be ready to go to the hospital. here the end of June 2019.

Hafiz Bin-Salih, regional minister of the Upper West West, told reporters that he would not yield to pressure for the project of more than $ 61 million to be inaugurated before the end of the work.

"No one will encourage us to put an incomplete hospital in service," he said.

Public parties who were demanding the opening of the new hospital had been getting more and more agitated lately, but state officials said it would not be inaugurated before the end of the works.

The health center is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment, but the minister said the gadgets needed staff with the proper training to operate.

He added that service providers should be offered the necessary training before being badigned to the use of sophisticated equipment.

It is expected that this institution would become a university hospital and be affiliated with the Wa Campus of University for Development Studies.

Dr. Osei Kuffour Afreh, Regional Director of Health Services of Ghana for the Upper West, urged residents to be patient during the opening of the hospital so that the necessary work is done. completed.

The facilities combine one-storey buildings and high-rise buildings spread over 133,000 m².

It is connected by walkways adapted to disabled people with grbad growing out of the walls between the drainage system.

It is home to 12 different clinics, including pediatric, maternal health, ear, nose and throat centers and dental care.

The pharmaceutical department that accompanies it has a storage area equipped with refrigeration equipment preserving drugs.

It also has seven different theaters, including four in an operating room, two at the obstetrics and gynecology ward and one at the emergency department.

It includes an administrative block, an emergency unit, a radiology unit, a laboratory, a blood bank and a physiotherapy unit.

It also has a burn treatment unit, an intensive care unit, a three-storey patient hospitalization block, a mortuary hospital, three buildings with 20 housing for staff and a parking space for 300 cars.