The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has donated a 60-bed suite to the Manhyia Government Hospital to boost healthcare delivery. Some patients at the hospital have had to be housed in a wooden structure on the compound owing to the growing number of people on admission requiring medical care.
The Manhyia hospital is the third largest in the region after the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and Asante Akyem Agogo Hospital. The hospital is at the moment making strenuous efforts to meet the needs of more than 600 patients that throng the facility each day. Manhyia hospital also records one of the highest birth deliveries in the Ashanti Region about 4,000 every year.
The housing and bed facilities have, therefore, come at a good time to relieve the hospital of some of the stress it is undergoing.
Doctors� bungalow
The assembly is also putting up a double two-bedroom house capable of accommodating six doctors. On completion, the facility would improve the accommodation situation of doctors at the hospital. The living quarters would further draw them closer to patients, especially in the event of emergencies.
The Medical Superintendent of the Manhyia Government Hospital, Dr Asante Martey, expressed his gratitude to the KMA for the assistance and pledged that the facilities would be put to good use and maintained.
In another development, the Chief Executive Officer of the KMA, Mr Kojo Bonsu, has visited seven educational facilities that the assembly has constructed.
According to him, the school structures were put up in line President John Mahama�s well thought-out plan of increasing girls� enrolment in schools in accordance with the Millennium Development Goals 3 (MDG3).
The beneficiaries
School enrolment is said to have increased in Ash Town owing to the School Feeding Programme. The KMA has, therefore, built a six-unit classroom block for the Afia Kobi M/A School to cater for the overflow of schoolchildren.
Mr Kojo Bonsu said a number of criteria were used in selecting the institutions that benefited from the educational facilities. Among the criteria, he said, were population of school pupils, durability of existing school buildings and the time the school was established.
Some institutions that benefited from the educational infrastructure are the Anglican Secondary School (KASS), which now has a 196-bed girls dormitory and a modern lavatory with bath, and the Adiebeba M/A School and Kwadaso SDA Basic School, each of which has been provided with a six-classroom block. The Asem Cluster of Schools (Saint Augustine) now has a 10-seater institutional water closet toilet with a mechanised borehole.
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