Ga South Municipal Hospital rated best in Greater Accra

The Ga South Municipal Hospital has been rated the best hospital in the Greater Accra Region following a peer review rating scheme by the Ghana Health Services.

The hospital scored highest compared to other health facilities in the region that were taken through the marking scheme, which included assessment of the environment and infrastructure of the health institution.

This was made known at the end of a three-day 2015 annual performance review meeting of the Greater Accra Regional Health Directorate in Accra on the theme: ‘Data for Action”.

The review meeting is organised annually to evaluate and assess performance of the health facilities, as well as devise innovative approaches towards dealing with prevailing challenges.

Scores

For the past three years, the peer review programme has been used to rate health institutions based on assessing the occupational health and safety and governance of health facilities, emergency systems, infection control and prevention systems, client care and clinical processes.

At the end of the assessment, Ga South scored 87 per cent.

The Ada East Hospital, with a score of 81.7 per cent, emerged the second best hospital in the region, while the Maamobi General Hospital scored 81.2 to be ranked third.

In the Polyclinic category, the Ussher Polyclinic, with a score of 88.7 per cent, was rated the best, while the Tema Polyclinic which scored 87.4 was second.

The Kaneshie Polyclinic came third with 86.5 per cent.

Motivation
Later in an interview, the Medical Superintendent of the Ga South Municipal Hospital, Dr Mrs Matilda Agyemang, expressed her joy and noted that the achievement would motivate staff of the hospital to work harder to maintain the status in the years ahead.

She said the hospital would ensure that it provided a positive working environment to promote the health and wellbeing of its patrons and staff.

The Deputy Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Gloria Quansah Asare, congratulated the winners and urged the other health facilities in the region to put in their best to ensure that they provided standard healthcare services.

The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Nii Afotey Agbo, in a speech read on his behalf, said institutional maternal mortality ratio for the region declined steadily over the past three years.

The ratio, he said, declined from 197.7 per 100,000 live births in 2013 to 177 per 100,000 live births in 2015.

According to the minister, the still birth record in the region also saw a decline in 2015.

“These figures show the determination of the health sector to ensure that maternal and new born deaths continue to decline to the barest minimum rate,” he stated.

The minister said the government would continue to support the health sector, especially in the area of better staff remuneration, rehabilitation of existing health facilities and completion of stalled projects.
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