Komfo Anokye Hospital Needs To Be Expanded - Hospital Administrator

Kumasi (ASH), June 27, - Although the Ashanti Regional Health Administration has taken steps to upgrade three Polyclinics in Kumasi to decongest the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), the hos Professor A. P. Asafo-Adjei, Chief Administrator of the hospital, called for the expansion when heads of departments met a delegation of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health. This was when the delegation paid a visit to the hospital for an update on problems hampering health delivery services. He said despite its ever increasing patients, KATH has a bed capacity of 800 and a staff of 200 and apart from some facilities renovated with resources from the African Development Fund, KATH h The only attempt at an expansion was the construction of a children's block and a maternity ward, which started this year but has already been abandoned. The Chief Administrator called on the government to build more houses for the staff since most of them leave their pots for lack of accommodation. Professor G. W. Brobby, Dean of the School of Medical Sciences (SMS) and head of the Ear, Nose and Throat department of KATH, called on the government to provide more accommodation within the h on when heads of departments met a delegation of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health. This was when the delegation paid a visit to the hospital for an update on problems hampering health delivery services.