The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has on Saturday, 4th January 2025, commissioned the 250-Bed Ashanti Regional Hospital and a 50-Bed Infectious Disease Centre in Sewua in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti Region.
The Ashanti Regional Hospital in Sewua will be the third biggest hospital in the Ashanti region after the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and the recently completed Afari Military Hospital. The hospital is expected to ease pressure on the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, which is Ghana’s second-largest referral facility after Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
Together with the 50-Bed Infectious Disease Centre – one of 12 facilities built with Covid-19 funding across the country to manage infectious diseases, the facility, which now stands as the biggest regional hospital across the country, serves as a vital lifeline for the region, bridging gaps in healthcare delivery and ensuring that people of the region have unimpeded access to universal health coverage and improved health outcomes.
This modern health facility is fully equipped with an administration block, out-patients department, physiotherapy, gynaecology wards, sterilization, intensive care unit, maternity and delivery suites, laboratory, pharmacy, theatre complex, laundry and a medical gas plant for the production of medical gases.
The project is part of the nine Euroget hospital projects initiated by President John Agyekum Kufuor in 2008.
In all, seven out these nine hospitals, which were hitherto left abandoned following the expiration of the Kufuor government in 2009, have been completed by President @NAkufoAddo.
The nine Euroget Hospitals are the 500-bed Military Hospital at Afari, in Kumasi, the 160-bed Wa Regional Hospital, the 250-bed Ashanti Regional Hospital at Sewua, and the 100-bed Ga East Municipal Hospital at Kwabenya.
In addition to these five 60-bed Hospitals at Tepa, Konongo, Twifo Praso and Madina are also part of the project.
President Akufo-Addo charged the workers and the Chiefs and people of the area to ensure that strict maintenance practices of the facility and equipment are properly adhered to and undertaken.
Aside the Infectious Disease Centre which was also commissioned today at Sewua, President Akufo-Addo also commissioned another Infectious Disease Centre at the Kumasi South Hospital in Chiraptre.
Chief of Sewua, Nana Kwaku Amankwaa Sarkodie, was grateful to President Akufo-Addo for ensuring that the project which was begun by their son, President Kufuor, has now been fully completed and also expresssed gratitude to government for the appointment of Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, the Minister for Education and Simon Osei Mensah, the Ashanti Regional Minister, who are all indigenes of the area.
Source: www.kumasimail.com
