KNUST supports Heal KATH Project
The Provost of the College of Health Sciences of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Prof. Christian Agyare, has appealed to the general public to assist the management of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) to give the facility a facelift.
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He urged the public to support the ‘Heal Komfo Anokye Project’ as it was a worthy cause. He said it was important that the public supported the project to give the tertiary facility a facelift befitting its status.
Support
Prof. Agyare made the appeal when he presented three cheques amounting to GH¢125,000 to support the Heal KATH Project. On behalf of KNUST and the College of Health he presented cheques for GH¢100,000 and GH¢15,000 as their support to the project.
Prof Agyare also made a personal donation of GH¢10,000.00 to support the project which was launched last year to raise an amount of $10million to renovate the old blocks of KATH.
He said the hospital has for the past 50 years been training most of the students from the college and as such it was appropriate that the university supported the hospital to put the faculty in a better shape to continue providing a training ground for the students.
Apart from the cash donation, he said the university has also supported the hospital with technical expertise in the designing of the project and in the acquisition of equipment for the hospital.
He therefore reiterated the call on all and sundry to support the project.
Appreciation
The chairman of the project, Samuel Adu-Boakye, was grateful to KNUST for the support which he said would go a long way to support the project to achieve its objective. He said the project was a partnership between the hospital, Manhyia and the project and was mainly to give KATH a facelift befitting it as a tertiary health facility.
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Initially, he said the project was to be implemented within 24 months. However, he said due to the challenge with space, it might travel up to 36 months. He said the hospital was running while the renovation was taking place concurrently thus affecting the speed of work.
He was, however, hopeful that it would be completed on time to enable the residents of Kumasi to enjoy the new facility. Mr Adu-Boakye also explained that the project was sourcing most of its materials locally and only imported those that could not be obtained locally.
He said all the contractors working on the project were local contractors who sourced their materials from the local market and thus assured the public that the project would not spend the money raised on imported goods.
He said the project would only import those that needed to be imported.