KATH ESTABLISHES FIRST CANCER REGISTRY IN GHANA

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The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital has successfully launched the first ever population-based Cancer Registry in Ghana christened ‘Kumasi Cancer Registry’. 

The project has become possible through a collaboration between the Oncology Directorate of the Hospital and the University of Michigan of the USA and it is now a resource centre for up-to-date data and information on cancer in the country.

 The Chief Executive Officer of the Hospital, Dr. Joseph Akpaloo made this known at an end of year thanksgiving service and staff get-together in Kumasi.


 Dr. Akpaloo announced also that Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital is very close to establishing Ghana’s second cardiothoracic surgery centre. 

Even before that project becomes a reality, a team of medical experts at the Hospital were able to perform open heart surgeries this year during a visit of a pediatric team from the Boston Children’s Hospital in the USA.

 In all, 112 patients benefitted from the free heart surgeries under the collaboration in addition to 10 others who benefitted from a similar collaboration between doctors of KATH and a team from Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute of China last month.  

 KATH has also become the first hospital in the northern sector of Ghana to have an E.E.G. diagnostic centre with a Consultant Neurologist to cater for the neurological needs of people in that part of the country. 

Still recounting the achievements of the Hospital this year, the Chief Executive Officer disclosed that a Prestige Clinic at the Eye Centre has been established to provide preferential medical treatment to members of the society who will ask for the service as a result of their status. 

The Prestige Clinic, Dr. Akpaloo explained, will provide quick, convenient and comprehensive specialist ophthalmic services to busy business and corporate executives who will not want to go through the normal processes in seeking care. 

The novelty will be replicated in other directorates of the Hospital next year. Dr. Akpaloo mentioned also that management has procured for installation at the old ‘Gee Block’ eight new elevators to replace the obsolete ones currently in use. 

Dr. Akpaloo assured the Hospital’s revenue collectors that none of them will lose his or her job in spite of the outsourcing of revenue collection to a bank. 

They will be re-assigned to other departments and Units. 

He mentioned inadequate space and well prepared peripheral hospitals in the region resulting in heavy congestion at the hospital. 

Dr. Akpaloo therefore called on the government to help to complete the 900-bed Maternity and Child Health block started more than 30 years ago to help solve part of the problem. 

He charged also the staff to develop positive attitude to work and ensure that their expenditure and financial demands fall within the budget of the Hospital.









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