DUAYAW NKWANTA GETS MORTUARY (BACK PAGE)

WORK on a GH¢240,000 mortuary facility at the St John of God Hospital (SJGH) at Duayaw Nkwanta in the Brong Ahafo Region has been completed.
The SJGH, which was originally established as a maternity home in 1955, is providing general health care and specialised orthopaedic and physiotherapy services for the people of the Brong Ahafo Region, as well as clients from the three northern regions.
It is under the National Catholic Health Service (NCHS).
The project, which took 11 months to complete, was executed by Messrs Joekona Company Limited, a Sunyani-based general construction firm, and financed through the hospital’s internally generated funds (IGFs), while the Ministry of Health provided the fridges.
Inaugurating the facility at a ceremony at Duayaw Nkwanta, the Medical Director of the SJGH, Dr Prosper A.K. Moh, said the hospital was in the process of being accredited as a training centre for Orthopaedic and Reconstructive Surgery.
Dr Moh, who is an orthopaedic specialist, indicated that the move was a collaboration between the University of Maastricht in The Netherlands and the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi.
He described the project as the single most expensive in the history of the hospital financed through IGFs and commended the entire staff and the management for its successful completion.
The Hospital Administrator, Sister Comfort Apedzi, said the SJGH had grown over the years as an institution under the NCHS with the mission of providing high quality health care in the most effective, efficient and innovative manner and in acknowledgement of the dignity of the patient.
The Brong Ahafo Regional Director of Health Services, Dr Aaron Offei, said the project involved a heavy capital outlay and, therefore, urged the management to recruit capable hands to man it in order to prolong its lifespan and also generate more revenue for the management to finance other development projects at the hospital.
The Tano North District Co-ordinating Director, Mr J. Adu-Koranteng, said the construction and inauguration of the morgue was a step in the right direction, since it was going to raise higher the status of the hospital as one of the best resourced health facilities in the region in particular and the country as a whole.