25/07/2026
Hon. Minister for Health visits KATH to inspect projects and engage staff members
The Minister for Health, Hon. Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, today paid a working visit to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) to inspect progress of work on ongoing projects and engage key staff members on policies and interventions being rolled to address challenges in the country’s health sector.
Accompanied by the Hon. Ashanti Regional Minister, Hon. Dr. Frank Amoakohene and the administrator of the Ghana Medical Trust Fund (GMTF), Mad. Obuobia Darko-Opoku, among others, Hon. Akandoh and his high-powered team toured ongoing projects at the hospital, including Cardiac Interventional Centre. The state-of-the-art centre is aimed at improving cardiac care for residents in the Ashanti Region and beyond. Other projects inspected by the Hon. Minister and the team were the multi-purpose pharmacy complex and doctors office complex currently being constructed through the Internally Generated Funds (IGF) of the hospital.
Addressing a durbar attended by members of KATH management, directorate management team members and the executives of the Komfo Anokye Doctors’ Association (KADA) among others,
Hon. Akandoh outlined key policies of his Ministry designed to strengthen healthcare delivery across the country.
The Minister gave the assurance that government was procuring large quantities of equipment and recruiting more health personnel to make quality healthcare easily accessible to all Ghanaians. He also highlighted that under the GMTF, also known as MahamaCares initiative, concerted efforts were being made to tackle non-communicable diseases.
“As we invest heavily in the Free Primary Health Care initiative to make preventive, promotive and curative care to the average Ghanaian, the government through MahamaCares is also pursuing a set of interventions to provide comprehensive care for patients with chronic and other life-threatening diseases”, emphasised.
In a show of leadership and commitment to resolving challenges in the health sector, Hon. Akandoh disclosed that all district, regional and teaching hospitals would soon be supplied with critical equipment valued at about One Billion Ghana Cedi (Ghc1b) to help boost healthcare services in the country.
“This will be the first time in about 12 years that such comprehensive retooling exercise for hospitals has been undertaken place in the country”, he pointed out.
As part of efforts to end the frustrating “no bed syndrome,” and reduce the pressure on KATH, Hon. Akandoh also promised that a number of hospitals in the region, including the Ashanti Regional Hospital at Sewua and Agenda 111 hospitals at Trede and Oforikrom, would be completed and operationalised soon.
In a firm message that gladdened the hearts of many at the gathering, the Hon. Minister declared his full confidence in the hospital’s CEO stressing that “the CEO has my full support”.
During an open forum, the chairman of KADA, Dr. Michael Leat, while expressing deep appreciation to the Minister for the visit, raised key concerns affecting the hospital with the welfare of doctors firmly in mind. He thanked the Minister for his openness and appealed for continued support to address pressing challenges facing medical staff and patients.
KATH CEO Dr. Baidoo, expressed his profound gratitude to the Hon. Minister and the delegation for the visit and the assurances. He thanked the Hon. Minister for the strong vote of confidence reposed in him and pledged that management would continue to work tirelessly to improve healthcare delivery at the hospital.
The engagement ended on a hopeful note, with all parties expressing optimism about stronger collaboration and faster progress in tackling KATH’s challenges and expanding access to quality healthcare services in the region and beyond.
