The Central Regional Hospital in Cape Coast is to be transformed into a teaching hospital in order to meet the needs of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Medical School.
Consequently, the Medical and Dental Council has assessed facilities at the hospital with a view to giving it accreditation to operate as such.
The Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Mc Damien Dedze made this known during a visit to the hospital by the Minister of Health, Dr George Sipa-Adjah Yankey and the Central Regional Minister, Mrs Ama Benyiwa-Doe.
Dr Dedze said the hospital needed ophthalmologists to man the eye care unit and those specialised units that would be needed to meet the needs of the UCC Medical School.
Mrs Ama Benyiwa-Doe said President John Evans Atta Mills would see to it that the hospital played a lead role in the health delivery system in the country since he played a key role in its establishment during his tenure as Vice-President.
For his part, Dr Yankey promised to immediately assign two ophthalmologists to the hospital to facilitate work at the unit and also upgrade the health facility into a tertiary institution equipped with the necessary tools.
Dr Yankey said health facilities in the region would be improved to enable the people to receive their fair share of the health delivery system and indicated that the GHS had been engaged in talks with insurance companies to improve the country’s health care system.
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