THE Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH), Dr Ken Sagoe, has welcomed Cabinet’s approval of a 28 million Euro loan facility for the rehabilitation of the hospital.
He noted that since 1998, efforts at rehabilitating the hospital had gone through a lot of “cycles and we wish to appreciate the government’s commitment towards this process”.
The CEO stated this during an interaction with media practitioners in Tamale, following Cabinet’s approval of the facility.
According to him, work on the hospital involved expanding and refurbishing facilities, saying 39.5 million Euros was to be provided by the Dutch government, made up of a loan facility of 28 million Euros from a Dutch bank, Fontis, and a 11.5 million Euros grant from the Dutch government.
According to Dr Sagoe, the first phase of the project would provide 400 beds at the hospital, adding that it was the vision of the authorities to increase the bed capacity of the hospital to 1,000 in the near future.
He explained that a new four-storey block to be sited in front of the morgue to create a new image for the hospital, would also be constructed.
He intimated that phase two of the expansion works would cover the construction of a new mother and child hospital complex as a way of addressing the maternal and infant mortality rates in the three northern regions.
He was hopeful that contractors would move to site by the close of December this year, adding that if that did not happen, the government and the authorities of the hospital would have to go through another cycle to source for funds for the project from the Dutch government.
The CEO, however, expressed disappointment at the fact that the project did not include the construction of residential accommodation for staff.
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