Korle Bu to have stroke, cancer clinics

20-01-10


THE Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital is to establish special clinics for the efficient treatment and management of stroke and cancer cases.
In addition, the hospital is also to set up a lifestyle clinic, as well as special clinics, to handle specific diseases that afflict men and women.
The Chief Executive Officer of the hospital, Professor Nii Otu Nartey, who made this known at its annual performance review in Accra yesterday, said the specialised clinics formed part of new projects to be undertaken to serve clients better under the hospital’s new five-year development plan.
He said the government had provided for the replacement of the 13 lifts in the hospital at the cost of $1.5 million.
“Installation of the lifts will commence as soon as the procurement process is over,” he said, and indicated that “the hospital will embark on the construction of a new Child Health Emergency and a new Gynaecology Block”.
Prof Nartey said the management of the hospital was in the process of merging the Surgical and Medical Emergency Centre and the Accident and Emergency Centre into one sub-budget management centre to conform to current practices.
A team of emergency room physicians from the New York University, he said, was visiting the hospital to finalise the arrangement for the merger.
He said the Korle-Bu management, with the support of the government, was sourcing funding to develop an “ultra- modern emergency centre and a specialist care centre that will house Eye, Urology, Neurosurgery and other specialised disciplines”.
Prof Nartey said those centres would be equipped with modern facilities to turn the hospital into medical hub in the West African sub-region.
During the year under review, he said, the hospital completed the medical blocks, second floor labour wards, new consulting rooms for the Child Health Department, renovation of the Physiotherapy building and the expansion of the satellite pharmacy buildings.
Ongoing projects which would be completed within the next month, he said, included consulting rooms and offices on the ground floor of the Surgical Block and the Reproductive Health Centre.
“This meeting between management and the heads of departments and units enables the hospital to review the previous year’s activities in order to improve on our core business — healthcare delivery to our patients. The performance review gives the various departments/units the opportunity to evaluate their achievements, strengths and weaknesses and improve on their performance in the New Year,” he said.
Prof Nartey said a new board which was inaugurated in June 2009 had requested for a new strategic plan to replace that of 2005-2009.