Kuntanase Hospital upgraded as National TB Training Centre
The Kuntanase government
hospital in the Bosomtwe District of Ashanti Region has been upgraded to
the status of National Tuberculosis (TB) Training Centre to train health
personnel on the proper and effective way of research into TB control.
Dr. Kofi Asare, Ashanti Regional Director of Health Services,
who announced this, attributed it to the giant strides made by the District
Health Management Team (DHMT) over the years in the TB control and
efforts to ensuring quality health care delivery in the region and the country
as whole.
Dr. Asare said this when the World Health Organization (WHO)
representative in Ghana, Dr. Joaquin Saweka presented three research
microscopes to the Kuntanase government hospital.
The equipment estimated at GH¢ 24,000 were to enhance their
research into TB and other aliments which could only be done with the
appropriate equipment such as the research microscope.
Dr. Asare stated that the equipment would also be used for all
forms of aliments that needed laboratory microscopy such as malaria,
urinary tract infection among others.
He commended the DHMT for their dedication and commitment
which had resulted in such achievement and called on them to take good
care of the equipment to enhance quality health care delivery in the district
and in the region.
Making the presentation, Dr. Saweka said the donation was in
response to a request made by the Bosomtwe DHMT last year when he
toured the district as part of his nationwide tour.
The WHO representative lauded Dr. Mrs. Agartha Bonney, the
District Director of Health Services for her personal effort at improving
quality health care delivery in the district.
He stressed the need for global integration to help find a lasting
solution to current health care problems facing mankind worldwide and
urged the staff of the hospital to take good care of the equipment and make
judicious use them to benefit.
Dr. Mrs. Agartha Bonney, in her welcoming address thanked
Dr. Saweka for the gesture and said it had come at the right time when they
were needed most to enhance their operations.
She mentioned that out of the 22 health facilities in the district,
19 of them were TB treatment centres, adding that the equipment would
therefore facilitate their operations and pledged to take good care of them.