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KBTH: 64-bed emergency unit overstretched as CEO seeks 200-bed facility
Dr Yakubu Seidu Adam is the CEO of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital The Chief Executive Officer of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr Yakubu Seidu Adam, has appealed to Parliament’s Select Committee on Health to help secure a new 200-bed Accident and Emergency Centre to ease pressure on the hospital’s existing 64-bed facility.
Dr Adam said the hospital, which has a total bed capacity of nearly 2,000, needs a larger emergency centre to manage the number of patients it receives from across Ghana.“We want you to help us to build a new Accident and Emergency Centre with at least 200-bed capacity,” he told the committee.
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