While the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, the only referral facility in the Ashanti Region, is struggling with space amidst congestion at its Accident and Emergency Unit, the 500 bed Afari Military Hospital is overgrown with weeds.
Installed medical equipment are also gathering dust as the project which has missed several completion deadlines has been abandoned and neglected.
Major parts of the hospital are deteriorating with ceiling and paints peeling off.
The 500-bed Afari Military Hospital, constructed by the Euroget Group on Afari land, was designed to be a state-of-the-art health facility comprising 50 medical and non-medical buildings connected by landscaped areas and covered walkways.
It features 15 operating theatres, two endoscopy suites, nine delivery rooms, a central kitchen and laundry, a mortuary with a 153-body capacity, laboratory services, a sterilization department, and a medical gas production plant.
To support operations, the hospital also includes a training centre with library and conference rooms, staff housing, a maintenance department, storage facilities, a power station with transformers and standby generators, a sewerage biogas plant, a water treatment facility, and a medical waste treatment unit.
For convenience and safety, it was designed to provide parking for 600 cars and 18 buses, an integrated Hospital Information System (HIS), and internal and external CCTV surveillance.
