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22 May

KATH Takes Delivery Of 3 Dialysis Machines

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The Management of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi yesterday took delivery of three brand new dialysis machines from Nivaansh MediQas Ghana Limited, dealers in medical equipment, devices, and consumables. This increases the number of machines at the Dialysis Unit of the hospital to five. KATH is currently expanding its Dialysis Unit to cater for the increasing number of patients with kidney issues. Presenting the machines to the facility, the Managing Director of Nivaansh MediQas Ghana Limited, Vishal Kaul, said the company would be monitoring the performance of the machines and also offer two years’ warranty. Aside from that, he…

12 Mar

Doctors At KATH To Embark On Indefinite Strike

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Doctors at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) are threatening to embark on an indefinite strike. This is due to plans to move them out of their residences at Danyame in the Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi. The Chairman of the Komfo Anokye Doctors Association, Dr. Michael Leat confirmed on Adom FM’s morning show, Dwaso Nsem Tuesday that they had been given one-week ultimatum to vacate the premises without any resettlement plans. A letter jointly signed by various consultants and specialists at KATH expressed their grievances regarding the eviction notice served to them. The doctors have given government a three-day ultimatum…

07 Nov

Otumfuo Leads KATH $10m Fundraising

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The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, will launch a $10 million fundraising drive for the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital’s (KATH’s) reconstruction project on Friday, November 10, 2023. The renovation project, which is dubbed: “Heal Komfo Anokye Hospital Project,” has become necessary due to the continuous deterioration of the hospital buildings constructed 70 years ago. Already, management of the hospital has done an initial assessment of the refurbished works to be done on the four blocks, with the cost put at $10 million by the Public Works Department. Sammy Adu Boakye, Chairman of the Heal Komfo Anokye Hospital Project Committee, stated…

11 Apr

Construction Of 500-Bed Maternity And Children’s Block At KATH Stalls

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Progress on the 500-bed maternity and children’s block project at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has come to a standstill. Some health workers in the hospital and the public are worried that the project would be abandoned, just as the 45-year Maternity Baby Unit (MBU) block which was pulled down because it failed the structural integrity test. The President in May 2020, cut sod for the construction of a new maternity and children’s block for the hospital after the Ministry of Health justified that it will be cost effective to build a new one than to maintain the old…