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Nana Kutin Sraman II (middle), the Bremanhene, being supported by some dignataries to cut the tape to inaugurate the hospital (inset)
Nana Kutin Sraman II (middle), the Bremanhene, being supported by some dignataries to cut the tape to inaugurate the hospital (inset)

SDA inaugurates new hospital at Breman

The Seventh-Day Adventist Church (SDA) has inaugurated a new hospital at Breman, near Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region.

Known as the Breman SDA Hospital, the facility which comes immediately after the Hart Adventist Hospital at Ahinsan was opened to add to the only hospital of the church in the Kumasi metropolis, Kwadaso SDA Hospital.

However, it becomes the ninth health facility in addition to eight other clinics, a nursing and midwifery training college and a central medical store, operated by the Ghana Adventist Health Services (GAHS) under the auspices of the SDA Church in the Ashanti Region.

Currently, Dr Anthony Eric Eshun has been appointed as the Medical Director of the hospital and will be working with a team of about 15 people to ensure the health needs of the people in the Breman area are addressed.

Effective and efficient health system

In an address read on his behalf, the Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr John Alexander Ackon, stated that the government was committed to the health needs of the people and would applaud individuals, groups, institutions and faith-based organisations for complementing its efforts.

“I find it worthy to commend the SDA Church for the opening of this hospital and establishing similar health facilities in other parts of the region and the country as a whole, he added.

He noted that the hospital, though  in the health sector, could place the church in a good light which would attract others to the gospel and urged doctors, nurses and other auxiliary staff of the hospital to exhibit professionalism in their work. 

Partnership and Collaboration

The Ashanti Regional Director of Health Services, Dr Alexis Nang-Beifubah, stated that partnership was one of the key elements in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and that partnering CHAG in the region was a step in the right direction.

He expressed the hope that the partnership would facilitate a seamless service scheme which would entail bringing all actors in the health arena under one umbrella to facilitate the sharing of resources to improve health care.

He indicated that non-communicable diseases (NCD) such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma, cardiovascular disease and stroke had reached epidemic proportions nationally and globally, estimating that by 2020, NCDs could exceed the figures of malaria, tuberculosis, HIV & AIDS and worm infestations.

He noted that excessive alcohol consumption, sedentary lifestyles, lack of exercise, excess salt intake, smoking and use of illicit drugs, “all contribute to one disease or the other, so the youth should be using their smartphones to share messages on how to avoid the diseases.”

He also cautioned the general public to be wary of fake herbalists and false spiritualists who had become a threat to the health of the people, saying that members of the public must exercise a lot of circumspection before patronising concoctions from herbalists and spiritualists.

Access to NHIS 

The Executive Director of CHAG, Mr Peter K. Yeboah, emphasised that the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was the surest means of accessing affordable health care in all NHIS accredited facilities.

“You should endeavour to register and renew your NHIS cards where necessary, in spite of the daunting odds confronting the scheme,” he added.

He promised the full support of CHAG at all times to the hospital in promoting the growth and development of health care in the region and the country as a whole.

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Suame, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, said health was one area he could not do away with as a legislator.

He said as long as health remained an embodiment of human life, he would continue to adopt the best policies to influence legislation on health for the betterment of the people.

He promised to build a children and maternity block for the hospital as an attempt to nip infant mortality and maternal death in the bud.

Bremanhene, Nana Kutin Sraman II, who represented the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, pledged the support of the people to ensure the development of the hospital.

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