By: Roberta Gayode Modin
Chief Executive Officer of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Opoku Ware Ampomah has called for the need to revamp Korle Bu and charged all stakeholders to contribute to positioning it to meet the needs of Ghanaians.
Speaking on the GTV Breakfast Show on the 100th anniversary of the hospital, he discouraged Ghanaians from preaching only negativity about the hospital as it tends to overshadow the overwhelming achievements of the state hospital.
“Humans are structured to remember negative things than positive things but everyday miracles happen in Korle Bu”, Dr. Ampomah disclosed.
He also reminded the public of how Korle Bu staff led the frontline in the fight against the COVID pandemic as part of its achievements and took the opportunity to hail all staff of Korle Bu.
“To the staff, I will say well done and thank you for showing hard work, courage and dedication to duty. There are many of our contemporaries who have left the country but you have chosen to contribute your quota to national development and let’s continue to work harder“, he said.
The Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital was established on 9th October, 1923, under the administration of Governor Gordon Guggisberg and has grown from an initial 200-bed capacity to 2,000.
It is currently the third largest hospital in Africa and the leading national referral centre in Ghana.
The hospital has chalked a series of achievements to its credit recently among them is the bragging right of the first hospital in Ghana to carry out a successful kidney transplant.
SOURCE: GNA