The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has praised the Ghana Medical Trust Fund (GMTF) for its interventions at the hospital within its first year of operation.

The commendation followed the handover of medical equipment and consumables worth more than GH¢4 million to KATH to strengthen specialised healthcare delivery.

The items include a fully equipped Olympus endoscopy tower for gastroscopy and colonoscopy, two jaundice meters, and assorted respiratory, oxygen therapy and anaesthesia consumables.

The equipment formed part of a larger consignment donated to the Trust Fund by Lifecare Technology Ghana.

Administrator of the Ghana Medical Trust Fund, Adjoa Obuobia Darko-Opoku, said the donation forms part of activities marking the Trust Fund’s first anniversary.

“We have done a lot for Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and we are ready to do more,” she said.

She said the equipment was allocated to KATH because of the hospital’s urgent need for the endoscopy system and other essential consumables.

She also commended the hospital’s Board, Chief Executive Officer, management and staff for their support for the Trust Fund since its establishment.

For KATH CEO, Dr Paa Kwesi Baidoo, the intervention came at a crucial time.

He disclosed that the hospital’s existing endoscopy machine is more than 10 years old, with management considering spending about GH¢800,000 on a replacement.

The donation means funds earmarked for the replacement can now be redirected to other critical services.

“This has really reduced my blood pressure because the monies we were going to spend on these essential items can now be channelled into other services to make sure we deliver premium services to Ghanaians we serve,” Dr Baidoo said.

He also highlighted the cardiac intervention centre, currently under construction, as one of the GMTF's most significant interventions at KATH.

According to him, KATH, despite its 70-year history, has never had such a facility.

He said the establishment of the Trust Fund has now brought the long-awaited project within reach.

“The interventions the Trust Fund is providing make us feel you have been in existence for 70 years because your impact within just a year feels like you have been here forever.”

The latest donation adds to other interventions by the GMTF at KATH over the past year, including support for specialised medical equipment and the cardiac intervention centre.

For the hospital, the interventions are helping to address longstanding gaps in specialised healthcare and to expand its capacity to provide critical care to patients.