A new specialist cardiology centre at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region will be ready in August.
When completed, the state-of-the-art centre is expected to significantly enhance the hospital's capacity to provide advanced cardiac care, improve patient outcomes, and contribute to the government's broader agenda of strengthening specialist healthcare delivery in the country.
Funded by the Ghana Medical Trust Fund (GMTF), it is one of the three centres being constructed, with the Korle Bu and Tamale Teaching hospitals being the beneficiaries of the other two.
Contractors on site indicated that the project is on course, with an assurance that the centre remains on schedule for completion by the end of August to pave the way for its intended purpose.
Inspection
This came to light when the Administrator of the GMFT, Adjoa Obuobia Darko-Opoku, together with the Ashanti Regional Minister, Dr Frank Amoakohene, led a delegation from the Trust Fund to inspect the progress of work on the facility last Thursday.
Earlier, the team paid a courtesy visit to the National House of Chiefs to court their support towards the effective and efficient utilisation of the Trust Fund.
Physician’s tragic death
The swift move to construct the Cathlab followed the tragic death of Dr Kwame Adu Ofori, a 47-year-old emergency physician at KATH, in July 2025.
He suffered a myocardial infarction, a “heart attack”, and urgently required percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) because one of the blood vessels that supplied his heart was blocked.
To save his life, doctors needed to quickly do a special procedure to open the blocked vessel and restore blood flow.
Sadly, there was no catheterisation laboratory at KATH, and painfully, he died before gaining access to intervention in Accra.
The Administrator of the Trust Fund, Adjoa Obuobia Darko-Opoku, who expressed satisfaction about the work done so far, commended the contractors for the progress made within a short period.
She described the cardiology centre as a transformative investment that would significantly strengthen Ghana's capacity to diagnose and treat heart disease, while reducing the burden on patients who often had to seek expensive treatment abroad.
The current state of the project
She reiterated the Trust Fund's commitment to supporting interventions that would improve access to quality specialist health care and expressed optimism that the facility would become a centre of excellence for cardiac care upon completion.
For his part, Dr Amoakohene also praised the contractors for the speed and quality of construction, describing the progress as encouraging and evidence of the government's determination to improve healthcare infrastructure across the country.
He noted that the timely completion of the cardiology centre would not only benefit residents in the Ashanti Region but would also serve patients from across Ghana and the West African sub-region.
In a remark on behalf of management, the Medical Director of KATH, Dr Kwadwo Sarbeng, said all key stakeholders were working closely to ensure the facility was completed within the stipulated period.
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