{"id":5258,"date":"2019-08-18T19:12:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T19:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=5258"},"modified":"2019-08-18T19:12:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T19:12:47","slug":"nana-addo-commissions-upper-west-regional-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/08\/18\/nana-addo-commissions-upper-west-regional-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Nana Addo Commissions Upper West Regional Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Nana Akufo-Addo has commissioned the $52 million 160-bed Upper West Regional Hospital.<\/p>\n

The Upper West Regional Hospital is part of the \u201cGhana Hospital Project\u201d for which construction began in August 2010.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the commissioning, President Akufo-Addo said this was the \u201chighlight of my tour of this Region.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis project has passed through the hands of four successive presidents of Ghana. It was initiated and begun under the 2nd<\/sup>President of the 4th<\/sup>\u00a0Republic, His Excellency John Agyekum Kufuor; it was continued by his successor, His Excellency the late John Evans Atta-Mills; and his successor, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama; and it has been commissioned by me, the 5th<\/sup>President of the 4th<\/sup>\u00a0Republic. This is a good statement about our country, of our institutions, and of our governance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Ghana Hospital Project involves the design, construction and equipping of one Military Hospital, two Regional Hospitals, and six District Hospitals in Ghana, at a project cost of US$ 339 million.<\/p>\n

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Other hospitals under the project included the 500-Kumasi Military Hospital; the 100-bed Madina District Hospital; the 60-bed Tepa District Hospital; the 60-bed Twifo Praso District Hospital; the 60-bed Konongo District Hospital Project; the 60-bed Salaga District Hospital; the 60-bed Nsawkaw District Hospital; and the 250-bed Kumasi Sewua Regional Hospital.<\/p>\n

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It is expected that the Ga East Hospital at Kwabenya would be completed and handed over in December 2019.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The Tepa Hospital is expected to be completed and handed over in April 2020, with Nsawkaw Hospital also to be completed and handed over by June 2020.<\/p>\n

Both the Konongo and Kumasi Sewua Hospitals will be completed by November 2020, with the Salaga and Twifo Praso being completed and handed over in 2020.<\/p>\n

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The Wa Regional Hospital is designed with several departments including an administration; Out Patient Department (OPD); Physiotherapy unit; Pharmacy; Radiology Unit; Laboratory; Surgical Suite (Operation Dep.); Emergency & Casualty Unit; Burns Unit; Central Sterile Supply Department; Medical Gases production unit; Obstetrics & Gynecology (Maternity and Child Health); Ambulance Station; Mortuary; Medical Waste Department; Relatives Hostel; and 20 Staff Housing Units.<\/p>\n

It is equipped with modern medical equipment, key among them include X- Ray Machines (stationed & mobile); CT Scan; Mammography; Ultrasound; Operation Theater fully equipped; Medical Gases; and Patient Monitors<\/p>\n

The facility is also fitted with a complete Local Area Network integrated with a Data Centre; Hospital Information Management Systems (HIMS); Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS); and Internet Connectivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Nana Akufo-Addo has commissioned the $52 million 160-bed Upper West Regional Hospital. The Upper West Regional Hospital is part of the \u201cGhana Hospital Project\u201d for which construction began in August 2010. Speaking at the commissioning, President Akufo-Addo said this was the \u201chighlight of my tour of this Region.\u201d \u201cThis project has passed through the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[13052,5497,9252,11526,9214,7396,8458,192,12634,6825,5328,10072,11715,11062,1031,13277,4331,10978,1639,130,5572,11973,3805,6988,5225,10639,6348,1101,3954,10353],"class_list":["post-5258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-akufo","tag-ambulance","tag-bed","tag-burns","tag-child","tag-data","tag-ga","tag-ghana","tag-health","tag-hospital","tag-hospitals","tag-hostel","tag-housing","tag-internet","tag-john-dramani-mahama","tag-konongo","tag-kumasi","tag-kwabenya","tag-madina","tag-mahama","tag-military","tag-one","tag-president","tag-successor","tag-theater","tag-upper-west","tag-us","tag-wa","tag-will","tag-x"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}