US-based Ghanaian couple construct medical centre for Santasi Anyinam
A 35-bed capacity and fully equipped medical centre has been inaugurated to provide healthcare services to residents of Santasi Anyinam and its environs in the Ashanti Region.
Dubbed “NextCare Medical Centre”, the facility, worth $1million, would provide services such as obstetrics and gynaecology, antenatal and postnatal care, paediatrics, general surgery and general outpatient services.
Others are emergency care, eye and dental clinic, nutrition and rejuvenation therapy, laboratory services, X-Ray and diabetic clinic, among others.
The centre was established by a Ghanaian couple, Dr Nana Adoma Owusu-Nyamekye, an Internal Medicine Physician based in Virginia, USA, and her husband, Albert Kusi-Appiah, a Senior Data Scientist.
The centre will provide high-quality patient-centred care in a compassionate environment with the vision to become the hospital of choice in the communities they serve and also be among the top hospitals in the country.
Experience
At a brief ceremony to inaugurate the project, Dr Owusu-Nyamekye said experiencing healthcare services provided to patients during her rotation in some hospitals in the country motivated her and her husband to construct the facility.
She said she saw that oftentimes some patients were not given the best of services, which further exacerbated their condition, adding: “Our hospital will provide the best of health care to patients as it is a prerequisite towards their healing.
“We envision an increase in our in-patient bed capacity and the addition of more speciality clinics like Nephrology, establishing a dialysis unit, Cardiology, Orthopaedics, Neurology and ENT in the coming years,” he said.
“To our staff, we expect nothing but excellence and emphasise treating all who enter our facility with respect and dignity. We stress professionalism and the importance of teamwork to provide an excellent patient experience,” she stated.
Land acquisition
In view of the difficulties they faced in acquiring the land for the facility, she urged the government and other state agencies to take steps to make land acquisition easier, to encourage Ghanaians in the diaspora to return home to establish businesses and other firms to contribute to national development.
Such an intervention, she said, would prevent people from becoming victims of multiple land sales with its attendant consequence of land litigation.
The Founder of Garden City University, Albert Acquah, lauded the couple for not turning their back on their community, but rather deciding to mobilise resources to invest in the area.
“They did not come back home to put up huge buildings for their personal edification but rather decided to think about the health of the people,” he said, noting that their intervention would go a long way to contribute to the growth of the country’s health sector.
Otumfuo’s vision
The Chief of Kwanwoma, Nana Amponsah Kwaah, who represented the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, welcomed the intervention by the couple, saying it aligned with Otumfuo’s vision to support efforts towards improving healthcare delivery in the region.
The acting President, Ghana City University, Dr Kwaku Owusu-Kwarteng, who chaired the event, thanked the couple for their decision to give back to their community through the building of a hospital to provide healthcare services to the people.
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