Tepa Hospital provides 800 jobs during construction : Over 250 more jobs when operational

The 60-bed Tepa District Hospital in the Ashanti Region is providing 800 jobs during its 36 month construction phase.

Work on the project which commenced on September 1, 2013, and is expected to be completed for inauguration in the next six months.

When it becomes operational, more than 250 jobs are expected to be created at the $32 million hospital.

The project, which is being undertaken by Euroget De Invest as the main contractors, has Krane Construction Limited and China Railway Engineering Corporation as sub-contractors.

The Tepa Hospital is a turnkey project with the Government of Ghana as owners, represented by the Ministry of Health.

The Resident Engineer of the Tepa Hospital, Mr Khaled Hamed Mahmoud, told the Daily Graphic team during a familiarisation visit to the site that the project was about 70 per cent complete.

He said the first phase of the project which involved designing, engineering and specifications had been completed and approved by the Ministry of Health.

Mr Mahmoud said construction works had so far advanced to the second phase while various supplies, including roofing, were also ongoing and medical equipment had started arriving.

He disclosed that Ghanaian staff would undergo six months training on the operations and maintenance of the hospital.

The 60 beds

The resident engineer told the Daily Graphic that the hospital included 36 general ward beds, 14 reproductive health beds and 10 surgical beds.

He disclosed that the hospital’s facilities included three standard operating rooms.

Other facilities include a full radiology department comprising an ultrasound, eschocardiography, X’ray machines with interventional capacity, mammography with a biopsy set-up, all digitised.

Mr Mahmoud conducted the Graphic team round the hospital’s main access gate which distributes to three entrances.

He also showed the team the entrance at the southern side; the visitors, emergency and casualty entrances at the northern side, as well as the mini market and the power station and workshop which is at the eastern side.

Land area

The resident engineer said the hospital was being built on a land area of 105,000 sq.m/25 acres, which was in addition to a staff quarters located at the southern side of the hospital.

The total service roads and walkways is 24,000sq.m/5.70 acres, he noted.

He said the hospital also had a capacity to park 100 cars and 22 buses.

Mr Mahmoud also showed the clinical support area, which contained the central laboratory, including a tissue pathology laboratory and the central sterilisation unit.

At the north-east end of the hospital, he said they had located non-medical hospital support departments such as the main kitchen, with its outdoor preparation and cooking areas, as well as the staff dining areas.

He, however, said at the far north east of the hospital they had also located the mortuary and the waste department plant.

He expressed satisfaction that the hospital was covered by a Health Information System (HIS).

Beneficiaries

For his part, the Administrator of Euroget De Invest, Mr Baba Anaba, said Euroget was committed to completing the work on schedule and to the highest quality.

He said the project would benefit everybody, and urged Ghanaians not to politicise it since it would provide the health needs of all within the area.

Mr Anaba said contrary to how the project had been described in certain quarters, the level of work at the site was enough to let the public know that those negative reports were untrue.  

Email: kate.hudson@graphic.com.gh