Ms Sherry Ayittey, Minister of Health, has said the University of Ghana Teaching Hospital which is estimated to cost 217 million dollars would be completed in 2015.
“I am confident that by 2015, the 600-bed Hospital would be completed to serve the purpose it is meant for”, she said when she inspected work on the project in Accra on Monday.
“When this project is completed, it will help improve the doctor patient ratio in Ghana”, she added.
Ms Ayittey said to help achieve the mandated goals of the hospital, doctors would be trained in various specialties adding “every health facility in the country will have a specialist.”
She said to help cut down the high attrition rate in hospitals, expansion works would be taking place at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology to train doctors in the practice of herbalist.
“This may come off after the Legon project is completed,” she said.
Professor Ernest Aryeetey, Vice Chancellor of University of Ghana, said the university was going through several changes to improve its educational and social purposes to the country and the world at large.
He said the hospital was an idea of expressing commitment in the training of doctors and that arrangements had been made for many people to travel to Israel to be trained.
