Renovation works on the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital have begun to enable the facility to provide a comfortable and safe healing environment. The hospital is currently ‘sick’ and saddled with leakage, cracked walls, exposed wires, and broken windows, among others.

Out of the 10 million-dollar target to heal Komfo Anokye, hospital management says it has received more than 50 percent of the money, hence the need to start work with the hope of completing it in 2024.“The good news is that since the launch of the Heal Komfo Anokye project, the public response has been so encouraging that work on the project has commenced with the beginning of the repair of the roof of the blocks, which has been leaking for years.

Two months after the launch of the fund-raising campaign by Asantehene, we are about 60 percent through with our $10m target in terms of pledges and cash donations.

“My major appeal remains that fixing the sorry state of the blocks is going to require the contributions of all philanthropic individuals and entities in the country and beyond. With no major repairs since their construction in 1954, facilities in the old GEE blocks have suffered massive deterioration and are no longer fit for the delivery of contemporary specialist inpatient services.

We are, therefore, urging those who are yet to respond to the appeal of Asantehene to do so in the coming weeks so that the project can be successfully executed in time for the good of the country”, said the Chief Executive Officer of KATH, Professor Otchere Addai-Mensah at the hospital’s 2023 Thanksgiving Service and workers’ award.
The renovation works is expected to give a major facelift to the second-largest teaching hospital in Ghana when completed in 2024.