KORLE BU TEACHING HOSPITAL – PROGRAMME OF WORK(POW - 2008)

1. KORLE BU TEACHING HOSPITAL – PROGRAMME OF WORK(POW - 2008) Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) was established to provide: Tertiary health care for all Ghanaians. Provide facilities to educate and train health professionals, ConductResearch and Provide specialistOutreach Services to all Ghanaians in other regions and districts.

2. Currently KBTH has 17 clinical and diagnostics department and units and has an average daily out-patients attendance of 1,200 with an admission rate of about 150 patients per day. It has 48 functioning wards with 430 doctors and 1050 nurses. • The hospital faces on daily basis, challenges such as overcrowding and congestion of department and wards by patients. It has inadequate number of staff. In addition there are obsolete medical equipment and deteriorating physical infrastructure.

3. These challenges pose a threat to effective and efficient health care delivery at the hospital

4. POLICY THRUST • The thrust for 2008 is to ensure that limited recourses are directed towards improving the provision of quality tertiary health care through the upgrading of infrastructure and review of standards of operation at all the clinical departments wards and management levels

5. PRIORITY ACTIVITIES Reorganize services to focus on referral and tertiary services and improve the quality of patient care Introduce programmes to promote regenerative health and behaviour change among client. Put in place programmes aimed at attracting and retaining the required number of staff to ensure quality of care. Expand, modernise and rehabilitate physical structures and facilities, equipment and tools;

6. POLICY TRUST(ctd.) • Review financial management systems and improve on internal controls as part of the revenue mobilization efforts. • Upgrade connectivity and ICT infrastructure to improve information management • Develop operational research capacity at all levels

7. EXPECTED RESULTS • Increase by in number of referred cases to the hospital as a result of high turn over of registered NHIS patients • Physical structures rehabilitated and modernized • Financial management practices and internal controls improved • Staffing levels improved with appropriate staff mix

8. New equipment provided to replace obsolete ones • Operational research and capacity developed for identified service delivery units and departmenst • ICT applied to identified service areas and Health Information Management system improved

9. COLLABORATORS • Our collaborators include: • Ministry Of Health, GHS, KATH,TTH, • Medical & Dental Council, UGMS, Pharmacy Council, Food & Drugs Board CHAG, • Mutual Health Insurance Organization, NHIC, NGOs, Churches, • Financial institutions(Banks,Insurance companies,) National Aids Commission • National Sports Council

10. LOGFRAME FOR PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION

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