Accra, May 27, Ghanadot/GNA - A
nine-member Board of Directors of 37th Military Hospital was on
Wednesday inaugurated with a call on them to ensure that the
hospital became autonomous.
It was also tasked to ensure that funding and health care
financing was a precursor to solving the myriad constraints
facing the hospital.
Inaugurating the Board, Major-General Peter Blay, Chief of
Defence Staff said the hospital had for sometime faced with
numerous challenges leaving in its wake a hospital with glorious
past now barely able to discharge its functions.
The Board will provide policy guidelines, supervise the needed
organizational and management changes and supervise the
hospital's sustained, improved health service delivery.
The Board chaired by Real Admiral Quashie, Chief of Naval Staff
has Brigadier General Ayeetey, Brigadier General Quist, Air
Commodore Pumpuni(Rtd), Lieutenant Colonel V. Otoo, Dr E.A.
Graham, Dr Kofi Ahmed, Former Chief Medical Advisor to the
Ministry of Health and Mr Benjamin Botwe of the Ministry of
Health.
It was charged broadly to co-ordinate, monitor and promote
activities of the hospital.
The Board would monitor the professional, technical and
administrative matters affecting the hospital, embark on
periodic inspection of hospital facilities to ensure an
efficient maintenance culture.
Major-General Blay enumerating the problems facing the hospital
mentioned inadequate financing and budgetary support, an
over-burdened internally generated fund, care for retired
military personnel and their families.
Others are, the sensitive issue of staff emoluments and hospital
rehabilitation programme, indiscipline and abuse of the system
and the hospital's role as the United Nations Level III and IV
medical Facility.
The Chief of Defence Staff urged the Board to focus its
attention particularly on restructuring the hospital and
addressing the human-centred problems of morale and motivation.
He reiterated his fullest confidence in the ability of the Board
and urged all members to work tirelessly as a team to discharge
onerously their responsibilities.
Major-General Blay appealed to all staff, client, government and
the public to lend their support to the Board materially and
morally to turn around fortunes of the hospital into a first
class modern multi-functional hospital that would serve its
clients within the shortest possible time.
Real Admiral Quashie pledged the Board's loyalty, distinguished
service and called for the cooperation of hospital staff to help
turn round its fortunes.
GNA
