GPHA Builds Gh¢46m Hospital

The construction of a 130-bed state-of-the-art international maritime hospital (IMAH) with a helipad by the Ghana Ports and Harbour Authority (GPHA) is near completion.

The estimated GH¢46 million health facility comes with a 1000KVA power plant, an oxygen plant, morgue and a helipad to fly out or in emergency cases, following the daily swelling vehicular traffic on Tema roads.

The three-storey facility is estimated to cost GH¢18 million, while medical equipment and installation will cost GH¢28 million.

Some amenities to be provided at the health facility, located at Community 3, Tema, also include five ultra-modern surgical theatres, MRI, CT, X-ray and other scanners. It will also provide maternity, children's wings, intensive care unit (ICU), VIP and other wards, coupled with accident/trauma centre and laboratories.

The facility when completed will provide an efficient healthcare delivery service and a one-stop referral medical centre of excellence for both staff of the GPHA and the entire community, including expatriates.

Dr Richard Anamoo, Director General of GPHA, made this known when Franklin Fifi Fiavi Kwetey, Minister for Transport, paid a working visit to the Tema Port to familiarise himself with the workings of the port and to also formally introduce himself to the GPHA as the newly-appointed sector minister.

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He was welcomed at the GPHA headquarters conference room, where Dr Anamoo presented some of the recent developmental changes that Tema Port has undergone.

Among them are tight security at all entry and exits of the port where nobody can enter the port without biometric verifications, installed 24- CCTV cameras to be monitoring the movements of persons within the working environment of the port and scanners that scan any cargo that leaves the port to ensure that goods that leave the port are correctly declared.

Dr Anamoo further mentioned a bulk cargo handling jetty at the Tema Port costing $122 million as one of the ongoing projects.

The jetty, he said, was being constructed by Amandi Holdings to increase the capacity of the port and also provide additional berths with the view to reducing the waiting time of vessels.

Fifi Kwetey was impressed with the sight of development he witnessed during the tour, and praised hard working management and dedicated staff of GPHA to record the great developmental feats, particularly mentioning that of the IMAH which is the best health facility any state institution could build through its own credit facility.

Other areas the minister visited were the new bulk cargo handling jetty where about eight heavy cargos can call at the Tema Port, central gate to the main port, Karpower barge, the fishing harbour mending wharf, Amaris terminal for export consolidation, transit terminal and central data block.

From Vincent Kubi, Tema