Klintaps College of Health and Allied Sciences (KCOHAS) has ended their spectacular health week with a call on government to support private health institutions.

According to Philip Narteh Gorleku, Founder of Klintaps College of Health and Allied Sciences, private health institutions contribute significantly towards the growth of the health economy.

The guest speakers who graced the programme included Faustina Excel Adipa; Professor Amoonor Kofi, President of the College; Professor Paul Amuna, Dean of Fred N. Binka School of Public Health-UHAS; Major General William Omane Agyekum Rtd, Head of the Governing Council KCOHAS and Farouk Alhassan, Representative of the Acting Registrar for Allied Health Professional Council.

A very insightful and educative durbar it was as guest speakers corroborated with the theme for the health week dubbed “Ensuring good health and well-being for all: Your Diet Your Health”.

 Professor Gorleku gave a comprehensive insight about the school and the health week event.

"Klintaps College of Health and Allied Sciences is the only privately owned university college that specialises in the training of health professionals. This means that we have not diluted our programmes with any non-health programmes. Currently, we have six accredited programmes  - Diagnostic Medical Sonography, Radiography,  Medical Laboratory Science, Community Nutrition and Dietetics, Ophthalmic Dispensing.

“Every year, we set aside a week where we focus and review in line with the trend and the goals of what is happening, especially the SDGs [Sustainable Development Goals], so that we can make an impact”, he continued.

He added that one of his outfit’s core values is community service, and therefore this year it has started engaging the community.

“We had health cleaning and sanitation. We cleaned our whole area and then went on a health walk followed by other health activities and finally the free health screening. We screened the whole community free of charge for various health disease conditions. Afterwards, they were advised on how to maintain good health”.

“We currently have a state of the art diagnostic centre at Klagon in Accra where we are located. So we give subsidised diagnostic services in all the areas accredited programmes that we run to the community”, he mentioned.

Professor Philip Narteh Gorleku added that Klintaps College of Health and Allied Sciences is impacting and supporting society in every possible way within its capacity.

This year’s health week was climaxed with a durbar and the homecoming of its alumni

So far, the school has graduated almost 400 health professionals.

Prof Gorleku encouraged the Ministry of Health to  support private institutions since Ghana needs lot of health professionals.

“We want to thank the minister of Health for honouring our invitation by sending a representative in today’s durbar. We are very grateful, and we look forward to more collaborations with all stakeholders”. He concluded by inviting all and sundry to partner with the school to continue making this humanitarian project a successful.