MUSLIMS TO ADOPT HOSPITAL WARD (PAGE 29, SEPT 15, 2010)

THE Muslim community in Kumasi is to adopt a ward at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi for rehabilitation and regular maintenance to enhance quality healthcare delivery.
The Chief of the Zongo Community, Alhaji Umar Farouk, who announced this during a courtesy call on the Chief Executive of KATH, Professor Ohene Adjei, also gave assurance to organise the muslim community to support the hospital in diverse ways as a way of encouraging the medical officers to be proficient in service delivery.
The courtesy call afforded Alhaji Farouk an opportunity to introduce himself to the hospital administrators as the new Chief of the Zongo Community.
Commending the KATH authorities for quality healthcare delivery over the years, Alhaji Farouk said the time had come for residents in the Kumasi Metropolis and its environs to collaborate with the hospital administrators to provide uninterrupted healthcare delivery to patients.
He said plans were far advanced for the muslim community to adopt one of the wards at the KATH and maintain it regularly as a way of encouraging others to emulate them.
He said it was only when stakeholders collaborated with the hospital authorities in maintaining the facilities that quality health delivery would be sustained.
He pleaded with the hospital authorities to speed up the process of releasing deceased muslims as a way of quickening their burial, stressing that no matter the status of muslims, it was their tradition to be buried as soon as they died, but delays in releasing dead bodies at the hospitals sometimes delayed burials unduly.
The KATH Administrator, Mr Offeh Gyimah, promised to offer the best of healthcare to all who attend the hospital to facilitate their recovery.
He noted that releasing bodies for burial sometimes depended on the corona’s report, and therefore pleaded with the leadership to to be patient when delays set in.
He commended Alhaji Farouk for declaring the intent to adopt a ward of the hospital and called on the public to provide similar support to sustain quality healthcare delivery.
Professor Ohene Adjei also commended the muslims for supporting development projects at the hospital and urged them to sustain it.
He assured them that in accordance with their corporate responsibility, the hospital would continue to offer quality heathcare delivery to patients to speed up their recovery.