Professor Ohene Adjei, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), has urged church leaders to join in efforts at helping Ghanaians to adopt healthy lifestyles.
Effective health care delivery, he said, must be seen as shared responsibility and therefore the pulpit should be used to sensitize the congregation on preventive health care.
This would help bring down the high rate of preventable diseases like malaria, water and air-borne diseases as well as sexually transmitted infections.
Prof. Adjei made the call when Reverend Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong, Chairperson of the Asante Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana
(PCG), and the leadership of the church called on him in Kumasi.
They were there to seek the assistance of the facility in the promotion of the church's health outreach programmes.
Prof Adjei complained about flagrant disregard for the hospital's "visiting hours" for patients on admission and smuggling of unauthorized
medication including herbal concoctions to them, which he said had forced the facility to institute stringent security measures.
Rev. Opuni-Frimpong commended KATH for the good job it was doing to save lives.
He said the church was happy to have had long standing relations with the hospital and the two have been collaborating to promote community
health and education on communicable diseases.
He announced their decision to hold a presbytery conference in April, this year, to reflect on their achievements and challenges and plan for the future.