A 21-MEMBER advisory board for the Suhum Government Hospital has been inaugurated at Suhum.
The board, which is made up of a traditional ruler, medical doctors and administrators, security personnel, a business executive and others drawn from the area, will elect its executives on May 13, this year.
Addressing the board, the Eastern Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Erasmus Agongo, said since the health sector was facing many challenges which could not entirely be addressed by the government, it was the responsibility of the board to see how best to resolve some of the problems.
He urged the members to, at all times, take into consideration the welfare of patients and people in the catchment area of the hospital.
According to him, that would go a long way in ensuring quality healthcare delivery at the hospital.
Earlier, the Medical Superintendent of the hospital, Dr Emmanuel Tetteh Ashong, had enumerated the challenges facing the hospital, including the lack of a fence wall to ward off intruders, congestion at the wards and the inability of the National Health Insurance Authority to regularly service bills which had accumulated to GH¢60,000.
He said the hospital, which catered for numerous motor accident victims on the Nsawam-Nkawkaw stretch of the main Accra-Kumasi Highway, had also not got an accident centre.
Dr Ashong expressed the hope that the board would act expeditiously to address those problems to enable the hospital to continue to deliver quality services to patients.
Members of the board toured the various wards and departments of the hospital and assured the management that they would do their best to improve the infrastructure and other services at the facility.
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