The Chief Executive for the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr Opoku Ware Ampomah, has asked the general public to collectively protect the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital describing it as a national asset.
Established in 1923 Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has evolved to become one of the biggest referral centres in Africa with over 2,000 beds, 21 clinical and diagnostic departments and three Centres of Excellence. The facility also has an average outpatient attendance of 1,500 with about 250 inpatient admissions.
The clinical and diagnostic departments include Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Child Health, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Anaesthesia, Family Medicine/Polyclinic, Accident & Emergency, Psychiatry, Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Burns Centre and Accident & Orthopaedics. Others are Pharmacy, Pathology, Laboratory and Radiology.
The Hospital provides sophisticated scientific treatment procedures in various subspecialties such as Neurosurgery, Paediatric surgery, Dental/Oral maxillofacial, Ophthalmology, Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT), Renal, Orthopaedics, Oncology, Dermatology, Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery and Radiotherapy & Nuclear Medicine.
Speaking exclusively with host of Atinka FM’s “Legend Sports Show” Justice Adusi Poku, Dr Opoku Ware Ampomah revealed that it is impossible for any family in Ghana to say that they have not be impacted by the hospital in any way.
“Korle-Bu is national asset which has served the people of Ghana very well and has had major impacts in our national life in terms of health care delivery in Ghana. Korle-Bu is facility where Radiologists, nurses, doctors, physiotherapists, nutritionist, laboratory technicians among others train there. There is no family in Ghana that has not benefitted from the services of Korle-Bu in one way or the other,” Dr Opoku Ware Ampomah told Justice Adusi Poku.
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