The University of Cape Coast Hospital has been adjudged the best health facility in the Central Region in this year’s peer review programme with a score of 97.2 per cent.
The peer review programme was introduced by the Ministry of Health and Ghana Health Services to improve and promote quality health care in the country.
As part of the assessment, assessors from various hospitals used a checklist score system in accessing and measuring the performance of each hospital annually.
Delivering a speech at the ceremony, the College Registrar for College of Humainities and Legal Studies (CHLS), Mr. Ebenezer Aggrey, congratulated the hospital for the achievement.
Some assessors at the UCC Hospital
He urged staff of the hospital to work harder to maintain the standard and further appreciated the output of all healthcare professionals towards patients.
Mr. Aggrey assured the Hospital that management of University would continue to support them to attain more laurels.
For his part, the Director of Directorate of University Health Services (DUHS), Dr. James Kojo Prah, expressed his profound gratitude to the University Management, as well Management and Staff of DUHS for their contribution and support towards the peer review programme.
Brief Profile of the Directorate of University Health Services (DUHS)
The Directorate of University Health Services (DUHS) began as a Clinic in 1963, attached to the Adehye Hall to cater for the health needs of students, staff and their dependents. It is now one of the Directorates of the University and consists of the University Health Services (UHS) and the Environmental Health Section (EHS). It is licensed as a Primary Health Care (PHC) Facility by the Health Facility Regulatory Agency (HeFRA) of Ghana. The Facility is a member of the Ghana Association of Quasi-Government Health Institutions (GAQHI). It is a designated sub-Metro of the Cape Coast Metropolitan Health Directorate with five (5) functional Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Zones located at Akotokyir, Amamoma, Duakor/Abakam, Kwaprow, and OLA catchment areas. It is a 70 bed-capacity Facility with a catchment population of 37,322 (excluding students and staff).
Source: Documentation and Information Section