Hohoe Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Hon. Daniel Noble Awume on the 2nd of August, 2022 inaugurated the newly built ultra-modern Accident and Emergency Centre at the Volta Regional Hospital, Hohoe in a short ceremony. The Korean Foundation for International Health (KOFIH) funded the facility.

In his speech, the MCE congratulated KOFIH, the Directors and the staff of the Volta Regional Hospital for successfully establishing the Accident and Emergency Centre and thanked all stakeholders that played key roles in establishing the facility, especially KOFIH.

He added that it was his expectation that, with the establishment of the facility, there will be a general improvement in health service delivery and the good people of the Volta and Oti regions shall benefit immensely from the facility.

The MCE appealed to the Management and Administration of the Hospital to diligently take care of the facility and ensure regular maintenance.

Dr Eunji Kim, Health Advisor, KOFIH Ghana Office, said the commissioning of the Centre marked a significant milestone and when in full operation, it was expected to create access to timely qualitative accidental and emergency services.

She said the Centre would also contribute to reducing the avoidable mortality in the region and Ghana as a whole and believed that the purposes would be achieved.

Miss Esther Kporwofe, Nurse Manager of the Hospital in a speech on behalf of Dr Ahmed Habib, the Hospital’s Acting Medical Director, said KOFIH’s support in putting up the Centre was very timely following the Hospital’s upgrade from a Municipal status.

Dr Habib noted that after over 50 years of the establishment of the Hospital, it could now boast of an ultra-modern emergency centre which would have a 20-bed capacity and be well equipped with state-of-the-art equipment.

He said some of the equipment included patient monitors, defibrillators, electrocardiography machines, infusion pumps and blood warmers, all through the support of KOFIH.

Dr Timothy Letsa, former Volta Regional Director of Health Services, said KOFIH’s support had improved healthcare delivery in the Volta and Oti regions adding that the Volta region in 2021 was placed among high-performing regions in the country for the first time.

The former Volta Regional Health Director, Dr Timothy Letsa, Acting Regional Health Director, the Municipal Health Director and Togbe Deh IX of Gbi Wegbe were among some of the dignitaries that graced the occasion.