Bibiani gets modern hospital
D. K. Korankye Company Limited, a dealer in building materials, has built a modern hospital at Bibiani in the Western Region. The facility, costing GH¢6 million, has two technologically advanced operating theatres and is positioned to become a major medical referral facility.
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Known as DAKS Medical Centre, the hospital would provide services primarily for people living in the Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai area, as well as portions of the Ashanti Region which are quite distant from the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, where they are referred to for treatment in critical cases.
DAKS Medical Centre brings to four the number of private clinics at Bibiani, but it is the only one with modern equipment capable of undertaking surgeries.
According to the Chief Executive Officer of the company, Mr Daniel Korankye, his outfit was moved to come up with the idea upon realising that the health facilities in the area, including the four private ones, were overstretched.
The ceremony to hand over the hospital to the community also marked the company’s third anniversary since its incorporation as a limited liability after 12 years of operation.
For its inaugural service to the Bibiani community, the company decided to offer the people of Bibiani free medical screening for two days after which it would start charging for its services.
The Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Mr Eric Opoku, who is acting as the Ashanti Regional Minister, promised to assist to hasten the processes required to enable the hospital to be affiliated to the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) in order to lighten the responsibility placed on the only government hospital in the area.
He pledged to donate 30 hospital beds to the hospital.
He said it had become urgent that a well-equipped medical laboratory was also established in the area to augment the activities of the DAKS Medical Centre and other health institutions in the area. He said he was hopeful that following the establishment of the new hospital an equally modern laboratory in the area would soon become a reality.
The minister and nine municipal and district chief executives from the Ashanti Region donated an amount of GH¢10,000 as capital to enable the hospital to take off smoothly.
Mr Korankye presented building materials to institutions at Bibiani whose buildings were in a poor state as a means of helping them rehabilitate the structures.
The institutions include Queens Senior High School, which received cement worth GH¢4000 and iron rods weighing half a ton; and the Anglican Senior High School which was presented with 50 bags of cement.
As a part of its corporate social responsibility, the company had spent over GH¢650,000 providing other social services and facilities to the community, including an ambulance costing GH¢75,000 presented to the Bibiani District Hospital.