Tamale, April 3, GNA - Money would soon be released for major rehabilitation work to begin at the Tamale Teaching Hospital to raise its standards to befit its status as a teaching and a referral hospital. Mr. Moses Mabengba, Deputy Northern Regional Minister, said this on Friday when he received essential medical equipment from the Tamale Rotary club worth GH¢1 million for the Tamale Teaching Hospital. He appealed for lasting peace in Dagbon to ensure that personnel sent to the hospital worked in a peaceful atmosphere. Dr Akwasi Twumasi, the Northern Regional Director of Health Services, said the government had given a deadline of April 14 to the consultants of the Tamale Hospital rehabilitation to submit the necessary documents on the current status of the hospital and expressed the hope that government would fulfil its promise of rehabilitating the hospital.

Dr Ken Sagoe, Chief Executive of the Tamale Teaching Hospital, said the hospital would soon establish a neurosurgical unit and to employ the services of one Dr Abass Adam, a Ghanaian Neurosurgeon trained in Germany, who would be joining the hospital June this year. He said Dr Abass had already brought in a 20-foot container full of Neurosurgical equipment and suppliers to work in the Tamale Teaching Hospital.