The Chief Executive Officer of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Dr Paa Kwesi Baidoo has pledged to transform the hospital by making it a true enduring tertiary facility that would not only meet but exceed the expectations of its clients.
The CEO has resorted to embarking on intensive lobbying drives to bring on board public private partnership in order to improve equipment stock and expand clinical and other allied infrastructure at the hospital.
Addressing the maiden mid-year performance review conference of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital since assumption of office, he said among other things his determination to strengthen existing partnership and develop new strategic ones to enhance skills development and mobilisation of resources to expand access to specialist care.
He also pointed to the need for “Strengthening operational and system reform, optimize revenue generation and pursue waste reduction and cost containment measures and implement performance-based reward systems, prioritise staff welfare and ensure fair but firm enforcement of discipline among staff members to enhance productivity.”
As he pursues these visions, Dr Baidoo is equally marshalling all strategic means available to ensure that challenges such as faulty or broken-down equipment like C T scans, Magnetic Resonance imaging, oxygen plants, fluoroscopy among others are made to function to their best capacity.
He was hopeful that with the help of government, the board, management and staff as well as stakeholders, they would be able to surmount these challenges.
Despite the hurdles according to him, specialist OPD attendance recorded for the period under review had exceeded the target by five percent while radiological and physiotherapy case went up by 95 percent and 10 percent respectively.
“I wish to state that Specialist OPD attendance recorded the most improvement in its output by exceeding its target for the period by 21 percent. The Radiology Directorate also outperformed its target by 10 percent by doing 137,848 cases in the first half of the year.
“Other radiological cases done was 8,209 as against the target of 4,220 representing an impressive 95 percent increase. Surgeries also went up by about seven percent over the target for the period with 9,193 cases being done. Another positive development was that while inpatient admissions dropped by about nine percent, total deaths reduced by about 13 percent,” Dr Baidoo.
He added that, “Emergency attendance registered was 13,314, an increase of 6%. On the other hand, Emergency admissions, laboratory services, deliveries, primary care and radiotherapy services went down by 12.62, 1.15, 17.47, 7.77 and 4.52 percentage points in that order against targets set.
He called for all hands on deck to reposition the hospital to meet the expectations of all stakeholders.
