The Medical Director of the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital, Dr. Paul Nkwaw Ntodi, has said there was an urgent need to build a modern hospital in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis to adequately meet the health challenges of the people.
He said the present location of the hospital at a rather hilly place created inconvenience in the health administration as patients had to strive hard to reach casualty ward.
“The hospital has 121 stairs to climb to the Casualty Ward which compounds the suffering of patients who need to be pulled in wheel chairs”, he said.
The Medical Director also complained that the topography of the hospital together with other constraints was not suitable for a regional hospital, hence the need for a modern health facility to serve large communities.
Dr Ntodi who was speaking at the Annual Performance Review meeting of the hospital in Takoradi on Thursday and enumerated constraints facing the hospital.
These include lack of accommodation for staff and patients, obsolete equipment, frequent breakdown of equipment, inadequate personnel and dysfunctional elevators.
He called for the immediate completion of the Emergency Accident Ward which started in 2008 to be able to serve accident victims.
Dr Ntodi, the internally generated funds of the hospital were inadequate to cater for all the infrastructure needs of the hospital.
However, the hospital authorities had managed to undertake renovations of some of the departments, mentioning some as the Out Patient Department, leaking roofs, staff flats, installation of 30 computers to facilitate clinical analysis, bought one vehicle and painted some of the wards that had given a facelift to the hospital.
Dr. Ntodi appealed to corporate organizations for assistance.