Nyaho clinic to attain international status

Accra (Greater Accra), 19th May ?99 ?

A 6.8 million-dollar high-tech private hospital project is to be built in Accra to treat difficult medical problems at home and cut down on the cost of travelling abroad for medical treatment.

The Nyaho International Hospital is being sponsored jointly by Private Clinics Limited, a holding company of Nyaho Clinic, Healthcare Development Limited, owned by a group of Ghanaian doctors and professionals living in South Africa, and Netcare Limited, a holding of several private hospitals in South Africa.

Netcare Limited has already invested 2.8 million dollars in the project, leaving four million dollars to be obtained from private investors.

This was made known by Dr. Kwami Nyaho Tamaklo, founder of Nyaho Clinic, during the launch of the project in Accra on Tuesday. He said the project would also enable some Ghanaian medical specialists abroad to return home to help in the health delivery system.

Dr. Tamaklo said the project would provide an 80-bed ultra modern hospital consisting of four intensive care units (ICU), 24 surgical beds, 30 medical beds, 12 maternity beds and 10 day-clinic beds. There will be three operating theatres, 10 consulting rooms, an X-ray department with Scanner, and a pathology department with hi-tech modern analysers. He said, at present, the clinic has 32 beds, an operating theatre, a delivery suite and a nursery.

Mr Ken Ford, project consultant and prospectus compiler, said there has been a private placement of 270,000 ordinary shares at 57,500 cedis per share. The offer of the shares, which opens on Tuesday, will end on Wednesday, June 30. He said Independent Hospital Developers in South Africa has been contracted to structure co-ordinate and develop the hospital project.

Mr Ford appealed to all stakeholders in the health profession to purchase shares to make the project a success.

Mr J. V. Phillips, who presided, said all the facilities for the project are ready, adding: "if by the end of June we have got all the needed money, the project will take of early July".