Egyptian construction firm, Euroget De-Invest has completed and handover to the Government of Ghana, a 60-bed capacity hospital at Tepa in the Ahafo Ano North Municipal of the Ashanti Region.
The facility is the third among nine hospital projects awarded to the company with the earlier ones in Wa in the Upper West Region and Kwabenya in the Ga East Municipality in the Greater Accra Region.
The facility is also part of the ‘Ghana Hospitals Project’.
The “Ghana Hospital Project” involves the design, construction and equipping of one (1) Military Hospital, two (2) Regional Hospitals, and six (6) District Hospitals in Ghana, at a project cost of US$339 million.
It falls under the broader objective of providing infrastructure for the delivery of effective healthcare to the citizenry.
Other hospitals being constructed under the initiative are the two hundred and fifty (250) bed Regional Hospital in Sewua, Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region; the sixty (6) bed District Hospital in Twifo Praso, in the Central Region; the sixty (60) bed District Hospital at Nsawkaw, in the Bono East Region; the sixty (60) bed District Hospital in Salaga, in the Savannah Region; the sixty (60) bed District Hospital in Konongo, in the Ashanti Region; and the five hundred (500) bed Military Hospital at Afari, again, in the Ashanti Region.
The Ahafo Ano Municipal Hospital has been constructed at a cost of thirty-six million United States dollars (US$36 million), and has been designed with several departments including administration; outpatient department (OPD); physiotherapy unit; pharmacy; radiology; laboratory; surgical suite (operation dep.); emergency & casualty; and obstetrics & gynaecology (maternity and child health).
The rest are central sterile supply department; ambulance station; inpatient wards – 100-bed capacity; staff dining; kitchen & outdoor cooking area; medical gases production unit; laundry; mortuary; medical waste department; general stores; maintenance department; power station; relatives’ hostel; 20 staff housing units; and a mini-market.
Additionally, the hospital has been equipped with modern medical equipment, such as x-ray machines, ultrasound machines, fully equipped operating theatre, medical gases, and patient monitors. It also has a medical waste treatment plant, a power station, a water treatment plant, a central air conditioning system and an anaerobic sewerage treatment plant.
Euroget De-Invest has managed to establish strong and outstanding standards in that field, not only Hospitals but also healthcare sector and Education.
The firm has managed contracts with the Republic of Ghana, including private financing, with Turnkey Project for hospitals, as well as staff accommodation, housing facilities and operation.