The Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) has revealed its intentions to build a state-of-the-art center for learning, research, and innovation to improve the quality of health services it provides.
The goal of this endeavor is to stay at the forefront of medical advancement on a national and worldwide scale.
Dubbed the “Legacy Project,” the around $ 18 million building is anticipated to be finished in the next two years and would function as a one-stop shop for medical advancements to solve current and upcoming health issues.
It will feature meeting spaces, research centers, and learning areas where employees may improve their abilities to stay up to date with modern methods for delivering high-quality care.
The hospital’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr. Opoku Ware Ampomah, revealed this to reporters yesterday at the culmination of KBTH’s inaugural “Health Fest and Photo Exhibition” in Accra.
The three-day festival, which was a part of the hospital’s centennial anniversary, aimed to highlight the hospital’s main accomplishments throughout the years while showcasing its journey.
Along with free medical screenings, networking opportunities for staff and the public, and debates on contemporary health issues, the event brought together over 50 exhibitors showcasing innovations from the hospital’s various departments and private sector actors.
According to the CEO, the hospital was taking steps to preserve and increase patients’ trust in the facility because it saw them as its primary stakeholders going forward.
According to him, the public’s persistently poor perception of Korle-Bu has an impact on people’s confidence in the organization as well as their health-seeking behavior, which leads to many avoidable deaths because patients frequently present to the hospital at the latter stages of their illnesses.
“Korle-Bu is the biggest hospital that provides both postgraduate and undergraduate training for all the different cadets of healthcare personnel and so it’s important that if we want to be relevant in the future, we have to be innovative and that is what this centre seeks to do to support innovation within and outside the hospital so that we can always improve on what we do,” Dr Ampomah said. “We have started a patient feedback system so that we will take note of the specific concerns of patients in order to address them,” he said, pleading with the media to tone down on always portraying Korle-Bu in a bad light.
“We are not saying that Korle-Bu is perfect but what we are saying is that work with us, let’s work together as a society and get us better because as for healthcare, we do not know when we will be patients ourselves so it is in the interest of both staff, the patients, everybody, to make sure that Korle-Bu works for all of us,” he reiterated.
Dr. Ampomah gave the assurance that the administration will use every effort to keep KBTH a top-tier hospital, stating, “Korle-Bu is your institution. This is a national asset. It belongs to all of us and it’s important that we all play our role as stakeholders to make sure that Korle-Bu continues to succeed and continues to do well.”
Source: newsthemegh.com