Work on a forty-one bed capacity Children’s Emergency Care Unit at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital will be completed in two weeks.
It will help to reduce the number of child deaths recorded at the facility due to inadequate space and equipment.
The project, which is under the Rebecca Foundation has ten neonatal ICU rooms, 14 high dependency and five intensive care rooms.
The First lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo during an inspection of the facility to assess the extent of work done urged the contractors to complete it on schedule for an improved health care at the hospital.
Available records show that last year (2018), more than 800 out of 5086 children admitted at the Children’s Department of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital died.
These deaths are mainly due to lack of space and equipment at the current facility which has not seen renovation since it was built 55 years ago.
Although the figure is a reduction from previous years, the current unit is not able to meet the increasing patient load of six thousand (6000) admissions.
Work on the new Children’s emergency care Unit started in May last year and is being executed by Africa Building Partners.
Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo who was satisfied with the quality and extent of work was hopeful the facility will soon be ready to enhance healthcare for children.
The Head of Child Health Department at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Professor Ebenezer Badoe, described the project as a life saver in child care in the country.
The new facility will apply the green technology used at the Komfo Anokye Mother and Baby unit, making it extremely efficient.