Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Archives

05 Sep

Fake Doctor Arrested At KATH Didn’t Attend To Any Patients – Management

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The management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has debunked the claim that the young man who was arrested at the hospital on Monday, September 4, 2023, and handed over to the police had attended to patients at the referral center. A statement issued by the hospital and signed by Kwame Frimpong, the hospital's public relations director indicated that the young man was accosted by the Director of Nursing Services on the walkway behind the A&E Centre after she became suspicious of his responses to her questions on his identity and purpose at the hospital. "The suspect was not…

28 Aug

Otumfuo To Raise $10m To Renovate KATH Leaking Blocks

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The Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has bemoaned the bad structural state of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) which serves as the referral center for 12 out of the 16 regions of Ghana. KATH block A-D built 70 years ago has never seen any renovations, a development Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II described as unfortunate when he sneaked into the facility in the night to visit his sick father’s Priest. Otumfuo who is uncomfortable with the state of the Teaching Hospital will in the coming day launch a fund-raising exercise to raise at least 10 million dollars to renovate the entire hospital. The…

01 Jun

KATH Slaps Two Doctors With A Month’s Suspension For Extortion

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The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) management in Kumasi has taken disciplinary action against two doctors who were found guilty of extorting money from patients. The suspension of the two doctors is contained in an online publication by graphiconline.com. According to the report, each doctor has been slapped with a month's suspension without pay. While one doctor has already completed the suspension, the other doctor's suspension will begin today, June 1, 2023. This was disclosed by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the hospital, Professor Otchere Yaw Addai-Mensah, when he paid a courtesy visit to the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu…

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…