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HEKAP visit

In preparation for the big renovation of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, a delegation from the Heal Komfo Anokye Project (HEKAP) has paid a courtesy visit to the KNUST College of Health Sciences on the 27th of November, 2023 to officially introduce the campaign and also discuss how to raise funds to aid the renovation and modernisation of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH).

The Heal Komfo Anokye Project (HEKAP) is a special project initiated to lead the financial and social mobilisation for the refurbishment of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital blocks. The A-D blocks, popularly called ‘GEE’, named after one of the contractors who built the Hos­pital - Gee, Walter and Smith Ltd, with about 1,200 beds, since their construction in 1955, have never seen any renovation works, thus impacting adversely on the quality of in-patient care.

Given this, as part of Asantehene’s 25th-anniversary celebration, Otumfour Osei Tutu II is spearheading this renovation campaign to raise $10 million.

Mr Samuel Adu Boakye, chair­man of the ‘Heal Komfo Anokye’ project committee, said apart from the Asantehene’s equity contributions towards the project, the com­mittee would rely on individuals and corporate bodies, both home and abroad to fund the project and would be counting on the College of Health Sciences and KNUST as a whole for their unwavering support.

Mr. Kwame Frempong, Head of Public Affairs, KATH, and the secretary of HEKAP added that the visit to the Provost and the Management of the College of Health Sciences to is also to deliberate on how KATH which serves as the main clinical training site for the KNUST Health Sciences Students can collaborate in the areas of resource mobilisation and find the process and structure statistics for the project to make the Heal Komfo Anokye campaign reach its full potential.

Professor Christian Agyare, the Provost of the College of Health Sciences commended the HEKAP team for the initiative to refurbish the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH). He added that KATH is one of the Premier Health facilities in Ghana hence its modernisation will serve multiple purposes in health care delivery and most especially the training of College of Health Sciences students.