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.