The new management of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has since May, this year embarked upon a couple of measures to make the hospital a full fledged teaching hospital.
It has given itself up to two years to put necessary structures in place to effect the changes.
Management's priority is the provision of accommodation for medical officers and decongesion at the wards, as well as expansion of facilities.
The Chief Executive Officer of KATH, Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare, said in an interview that management was sourcing Spanish funding to reactivate the child/maternity ward project, which started in 1974.
As a short term measure, it has provided accommodation for 21 medical officers at the divested City Hotel.
A 21-flat block financed out of KATH's own resources is completed and ready for occupation.
KATH would need ?6billion for the completion of two more of this flat.
Management has also instituted staff development programmes, including post graduate training to entice young professional to say in the country.
This year, it is the plan of KATH to send somebody to go and train in a neuro surgery and radiology, Nsiah Asare disclosed.
He said management intends to take all categories of staff through quality care training because "we want quality".
According to the Chief Executive, the administration has been decentralised into eight clinical directorates for efficient and effective running of the hospital.
He mentioned these clinical directorates as medicine, surgery, child health, obstretrics and gynaecology, allied services, pathology and diagnosis, anaesthesia and intensive care and polyclinic.
Each directorate would be manned by a team of administrators, pharmacists and accountants as the focus, while management works with the board to set up policies for implementing the various directorates.
Management would concentrate on strategic planning, Nsiah Asare pointed out.
The directorates are expected to be firmly established by the end of October, Nsiah Asare confirmed.
Under the new arrangement KATH Management also intends to streamline the supply system to ensure constant and regular supply and procurement.
Administrator Nsiah Asare, however, complained about the continuous occupation of most of its land space by the military, as an impediment to its expansion programmes.
The child and maternity block is sited on this land and we need this land urgently to complete the project, he said.
The military have been relocated at Nyankyerenease (Complex) and are supposed to leave the land which had been re-allocated to KATH by the late Asantehene.
Nsiah Asare appealed to the Military Command to expedite the release of the said land to enable it complete its expansion programmes.
KATH is actually congested and needs some expansion in infrastructure and facilities, he added.
He said the management has petitioned the Ministry of Defence through the Ministry of Health for the immediate release of the land and hoped Cabinet would consider it as urgent.
Nsiah Asare also mentioned incentive packages for health personnel to ensure quality health delivery.
These include means of transport to bring workers to and from work.
Chief Executive Nsiah Asare, however, mentioned that sanctions would be instituted against wayward personnel to ensure discipline, though, he added, "we would motivate others."
