Korle-Bu organises free medical outreach at James Town

Accra, Oct. 12, GNA - The management of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital on Tuesday expressed concern about water shortage and power outage facing the Hospital and called on the Ghana Water Company and Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to assist them to remedy the situation. Public Relations Director of the Hospital, Mr Mustapha Salifu, appealed to ECG to replace underground cables in order to provide the Hospital with uninterrupted power. Speaking to the media at a medical outreach programme organised by the Hospital for the people of James Town and its environs as part of the Hospital's 87th birthday, he said, plans were underway to expand the water storage capacity of the hospital from 500,000 gallons to 2.5 million gallons.

The one-week event on the theme: "87 years of Health Care Delivery, Our Success, Challenges and Way Forward" is to open up its activities and operations to the general public. Korle-Bu offers tertiary health care, provides training to health professionals, provides clinical facilities, conducts research and provides specialist outreach services. The screening programme, which included eye, dental, ear, nose and throat and general investigation such as blood pressure, malaria, Hepatitis B and HIV tests, was done by the medical officers, nurses, pharmacists and midwives.

Mr Salifu said the Hospital had plans to improve upon their health services and the necessary resources, which would attract more medical officers to curb the brain drain facing the hospital. He appealed to corporate organizations to assist the hospital in the total rehabilitation of the hospital to make it a medical tourist centre in the sub-region. 12 Oct. 10