Akufo-Addo commissions 250-bed Ashanti Regional Hospital in Sewua.
On Saturday, January 4, 2025, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo commissioned the 250-bed Ashanti Regional Hospital and a 50-bed Infectious Disease Centre at Sewua, Bosomtwe District, Ashanti.
The Ashanti Regional Hospital in Sewua will be the third largest hospital in the Ashanti region, following the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and the recently built Afari Military Hospital. The hospital is projected to relieve pressure on the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Ghana’s second-largest referral facility after the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
Together with the 50-bed Infectious Disease Centre, one of 12 facilities built with COVID-19 funding across the country to manage infectious diseases, the facility, which is now the country’s largest regional hospital, serves as a vital lifeline for the region, bridging gaps in healthcare delivery and ensuring that people in the region have unhindered access to universal health coverage and improved health outcomes.
This modern health facility is fully equipped with an administration block, outpatients department, physiotherapy, gynaecology wards, sterilization, intensive care unit, maternity and delivery suites, laboratory, pharmacy, theatre complex, laundry, and a medical gas plant for producing medical gas.
The project is one of nine Euroget hospital projects launched by former President John Agyekum Kufuor in 2008.
President Akufo-Addo has completed seven of the nine hospitals that were previously abandoned after the Kufuor government’s term expired in 2009.
The nine Euroget Hospitals include the 500-bed Military Hospital in Afari, Kumasi, the 160-bed Wa Regional Hospital, the 250-bed Ashanti Regional Hospital in Sewua, and the 100-bed Ga East Municipal Hospital in Kwabenya.
In addition, the project includes five 60-bed hospitals at Tepa, Konongo, Twifo Praso, and Madina.
President Akufo-Addo instructed the workers, chiefs, and residents of the area to ensure that stringent maintenance standards for the facility and equipment are followed and carried out.
Aside from the Infectious Disease Centre in Sewua, President Akufo-Addo recently inaugurated a second Infectious Disease Centre at Kumasi South Hospital in Chiraptre.
Nana Kwaku Amankwaa Sarkodie, Chief of Sewua, expressed gratitude to President Akufo-Addo for ensuring that the project began by their son, former President J.A Kufuor, is now totally completed.
He thanked the administration for appointing Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, Minister of Education, and Simon Osei Mensah, Ashanti Regional Minister, both of whom are Ashanti indigenes.
