Ministry Donates Vehicales to Police Hospital Administration

Published in the Daily Graphic on 19 Nov, 2009, pg 44

Story: Matilda Attram
THE Ministry of Health, in partnership with the Ministry of the Interior, has presented 10 vehicles to the Ghana Police Health Administration in Accra.
The 10 Nissan Sunny and Polo cars, which cost $225,000, are expected to expedite the operations of workers of the police hospital.
In a speech read on his behalf, the Minister of the Interior, Mr Cletus Avoka, indicated that the police hospital had played important role in the country, especially during times of industrial actions by other health institutions.
He said efforts of the hospital had been ignored for a long time, although it catered for both security personnel and the public in general.
“It is a matter of grave concern that such an important national asset has not seen any major expansion or upgrading of both human and material resources since its establishment in 1976,” he stated.
Mr Avoka also stated that his ministry would work in collaboration with the Ministry of Health to support the hospital in order to improve on its human and logistic resources.
In an address by the Minister of Health Designate, Dr Benjamin Kunbour, the presentation was to help improve on the operations of the hospital in the area of health services delivery to the public.
He said health delivery system in the country was an important factor of development which was confronted by many challenges.
“The health delivery system runs with many challenges, and this has been a key issue which needs to be solved”.
Mr Avoka, therefore, urged the workers of the hospital to be competent in their delivery so as to improve on the health service in the country.
The Medical Director of the Police Hospital, DCOP Dr Godfred Asiamah, expressed gratitude to the Ministries of Health and the Interior for their kind gesture, and appealed to the Ministry of Health to consider the welfare of health workers in order to resolve their shortage in the hospital.
He, therefore, encouraged workers of the hospital to contribute their quota to the quality delivery of health services in the country.