A National Service Person has donated a wheelchair to the Effia Nkwanta Hospital, earning lots of respect and admiration among her peers and staff of the Hospital alike. Ms Millicent Aku-Kpoti, did her service at the Social Welfare Unit of Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital with the 2020/2021 year group of personnel posted to the Hospital.

During her service, Ms Aku-Kpoti was tasked to routinely visit wards in the Hospital, interact with patients and offer them social welfare assistance where necessary. In her line of duty, she built relationships with some clients and was able to recognize some needs of clients in the Hospital. Mrs Aku-Kpoti says she is greatly humbled by the experiences she has gained from the Hospital.

Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital is the biggest healthcare service provider in both Western and Western North regions. Although the facility has a number of wheelchairs, some are faulty and not in a safe condition for use. Mrs Aku-Kpoti says the situation really touched her heart to donate a wheelchair to the Hospital.

The Hospital Management was very pleased with her kind gesture. Receiving the wheelchair on behalf of management, Deputy Director of Nursing Services Mrs Vivian Zormelo, expressed profound gratitude to Ms. Kpoti, encouraged and asked for God’s blessings for her to be able to do more for the needy in future.

In an interaction, the head of the Social Welfare Unit Emmanuel Kofi Wiredu, observed that Ms. Aku-Kpoti was hardworking, punctual, respectful and demonstrated a high sense of duty as a personnel of the Unit. He was very proud of Ms. Aku Kpoti and very impressed with her gesture. He encouraged her not to relent with her desire to serve the needy.

Ms. Kpoti says she acquired the wheelchair with savings from her National Service allowance. She explained the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital needed assistance in many ways to serve and make life more comfortable for the sick.

She appealed to the general public to help in diverse ways to alleviate the plight of both staff and clients.

Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital is sponsoring ten of its staff to undergo a crash course in critical care nursing. The ten are experienced State Registered Nurses and Midwives comprising six general nurses and four midwives.

The programme being conducted at the University of Ghana Medical School (UGMC) in Accra will equip the trainees with skills that will enable them provide high level care in an intensive care setting such as being conversant with the ventilator and care of ventilated patients.

It also entails skills to perform detailed clinical examination and nursing diagnosis for critically ill patients and how to set up, manage and do invasive and non-invasive haemodynamic monitoring effectively.

The trainees will also be able to prepare and administer drugs and infusions and be conversant with specialized investigations.

The medical Director of the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital, Dr. Joseph Tambil is optimistic that, the training will be of immense benefit to the hospital. He explains that the motive for selecting personnel to undergo the training is to set-up an Intensive Care Unit soon in Effia Nkwanta, to augment the healthcare services rendered at the hospital.

Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital has opened its new ultra-modern conference center for public events at the most competitive price in the whole of Sekondi-Takoradi.
The conference center is in a serene location near the Sekondi Nursing and Midwifery School.

It has a capacity of close to two hundred seats (200) and is equipped with perfect sanitary fittings for premium comfort and hospitality for all.
The conference center can be used for conference meetings, weddings, receptions, prayer meetings and others.

For any enquiries please call Agbesi Doke on 0246305405.

The Deputy Director of Public Health at the Western Regional Health Directorate, Dr. Gifty Amugi has commended the Management of the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital for their efforts at widening the range of services offered at the Regional Hospital.

Dr. Amugi was addressing a gathering at a ceremony to inaugurate a new Endoscopy Center at the Hospital. The new Endoscopy Center follows a recent launch of a Diagnostic Center at the Hospital. Both initiatives have been secured through Public-Private Partnership (PPP) arrangements.

It is anticipated that the commencement of these services at the Hospital will bring relief to clients who hitherto have to access these services outside the Regional Hospital.

In an interview with the media, the private partner to the Endoscopy Center, Paul Aidoo indicated that all is set for the centre to render quality Endoscopy services. He says nurses have been adequately trained and arrangements have been made for specialized doctors to handle the Endoscopy processes. He promised to maintain a good partnership to help the Hospital achieve its vision.

In his welcome address to guests at the launch, the Head of Administration of Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital Mr. Michael Danso observed that the launch of the Diagnostic and Endoscopy centres could partly prepare the hospital towards attaining its vision of a Teaching Hospital.

The Clinical Coordinator of Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital, Dr. Edward Amihere who stood in for the Medical Director, Dr. Joseph Tambil did a presentation to explain some importance and benefits of Endoscopy.

The Western Region Blood Bank has planned a massive blood donation exercise at the Aboadze Community Park to mark this year’s World Blood Donor Day. World Blood Donor Day is celebrated on 14th June each year. The aim is to raise global awareness on the need for safe blood and blood products for transfusion and the contribution that critical voluntary and unpaid blood donors make to national health systems.
The day also provides opportunity to call to action, governments and national health authorities to provide accurate resources and put into play systems and infrastructures to increase the collection of blood from voluntary, non-remunerated blood donors.
Throughout the COVID 19 Pandemic, despite limited mobility and other challenges, blood donors in many countries have continued to donate blood and plasma to patients who need transfusion. This extraordinary effort during a time of unprecedented crisis highlight the crucial role of well organized, committed voluntary, non-remunerated blood donors in ensuring a safe and sufficient blood supply during normal and emergency times.
For 2021, the World Blood Donor Day slogan is ‘give blood and keep the world beating’. The message highlights the essential contribution blood donors make to keep the world pulsating by saving lives and improving other’s health. It reinforces the global call for more people all over the world to donate blood regularly and contribute to better health.
There are a number of voluntary and unpaid regular blood donors to the Regional Blood Bank at Effia Nkwanta Hospital who are worthy of recognition. Mr. Kobbie Ansah Eshun, a forty-four year old O negative blood donor has donated thirty three times, Mr. Zadkiel Baisie a fifty-three year old A positive blood donor has donated fifty-five times and Mr Kobina Bortsie a thirty-five year old B positive blood donor who has donated for twenty-four times. The life stories of these individuals in the Western Region is testimony of how an individual can live healthily despite donating many times. The Regional Blood Donor organizer, Emmanuel Essien as well as the entire management and staff of Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital, are appreciative of all voluntary blood donors in the Western and Western North Regions.

You can also be a voluntary blood donor by filling and submitting our blood donor forms on this web page.

Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital has adopted a client service strategy to help ease the plight of clients who have difficulties navigating through the hospital to access various health services. Clients now have persons to assist them with directions as to where to locate particular services as well as how to register their complaints.
The client service executives also called ushers are distinctly identifiable in their green high visibility green reflector vests and they are stationed at carefully selected points within the hospital. Clients with complaints will be assisted by the personnel to file them accordingly.
Prior to their deployment, management of the hospital advised the selected client service personnel to demonstrate professionalism and dedication to help mitigate the plight of clients who face difficulties when they visit the hospital to access healthcare. Complaints books have been made available at the stations of the personnel for aggrieved clients to file their complaints for redress.

Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital has opened a new diagnostic center adding more to its range of diagnostic services. The new center has modern technology and well trained personnel who perform analysis to detect various medical conditions and offer appropriate diagnostic solutions.
At a short ceremony organized to launch the new diagnostic center, the Medical Director Dr Joseph K. Tambil explained that the regional hospital is determined to improve services in the hospital to ease the plight of clients having to be referred to travel long distances to access health services.

The regional hospital now offers diagnostic services such as Echocardiography, Holter ECG, Ambulatory Blood Pressure monitoring, Spirometry and Electroencephalography (EEG), Dopler USG, Thyroid/neck USG and Lumps/swelling/MSK. The new diagnostic center is a collaboration with Medstar, a private investor. It is located adjacent to the office of the Health Information Unit.

Some events of phenomenal significance in the recent life of Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital are gestures performed by clients to show appreciation for the excellent services they received when their wards were in-patients. There have been several heartwarming expressions of appreciation usually from families or caregivers about the polite reception and quality treatment they received at the hospital. Unfortunately only a silent minority get to hear.

However, there are a few of such clients who decided to bring the good works of the hospital to light. Within a period of two months, two different families in Takoradi have, in their own small way, come to Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital to show genuine appreciation for the level of commitment demonstrated to them by the hospital staff who, despite the teething challenges of the hospital, handled them with quality sense of respect and urgency.

First is the Clement family of Takoradi who are thankful for the care of their child, Araba Amuaba Clement  at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit when she was delivered a preterm baby a few years ago. The family showed appreciation for the outcome of the excellent care by presenting very important equipment to the hospital. They include a microhematocrit centrifuge, rechargeable pulse oximeters, suction machines and ventilation bags. The family expressed special thanks to Dr John Kweku Eghan and Dr Yaa Nkansah, of the Pediatrics Unit for their leadership.

The second gesture was performed by a couple which celebrated a decade in their marriage with a presentation to support the excellent services of Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital.

Mr. Anthony Boakye Saka and Mrs Rosemond Ellen Boakye Saka presented two air conditioners, an indoor and outdoor unit to lessen the plight of staff and clients at the pediatrics unit.

The donation of the two air conditioners was through the suggestion of Dr. Nana Esi Gaisie of the pediatric unit who narrated the plight of staff and clients at the unit. She expressed profound gratitude to the couple for heeding to her suggestion and promised that the air conditioners would be put to good use.

The couple encouraged staff and management of the Hospital not to relent on their oars and promised to do more to ease the plight of staff and encourage quality care.

The Health Facility Regulatory Agency (HEFRA) has presented a three-year provisional license to the Effia Nwkanta Regional Hospital in Sekondi after the hospital satisfied the standard licensing requirements of the regulatory body. The presentation of the license signifies Effia Nkwanta’s commitment and success in going through the regulatory body’s assessment processes. The processes are critical in ensuring health facilities maintain and improve standards for quality healthcare.
Before a license is obtained, a facility must first apply with HEFRA after which assessors from the Agency will inspect to check readiness of the hospital to operate. The Agency will then review recommendations from the assessors after the inspection to issue an initial three year license for the facility to operate while they monitor to determine the adequacy and standard of healthcare provided. In accordance with section 4(d) of 2011 (Act 829).
Assessors from the regulatory body have been scrutinizing the regional hospital since the hospital applied in 2019 taking into consideration healthcare delivery and sanitary practices at the various wards and of the entire facility. They also take into consideration the equipment stock, measures in place for the running of the facility including staff attendance, Infection prevention control protocols among other aspects.
Many health facilities have abandoned the processes citing a number of difficulties. HEFRA is mandated to close down health facilities which fail to meet their standards. Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital is working assiduously to meet the remaining standards for the issuance of a permanent license.

 

A team of nurses, a doctor and an anesthetist who attended a COVID 19 training programme in Accra have successfully returned to the hospital not only with specialized skills but also with some essential items needed for Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) purposes at the COVID 19 Treatment Center at the Infectious Disease Unit of the Hospital at Effia.

The four-week training programme which was held at the Ghana Infectious Disease Center and the Ga East Municipal Hospital was attended by participants from five regions in Ghana. It was to provide the participants with skills that would enable them deliver quality care to COVID 19 patients.

Poised for action on their return, the team thought it wise to procure some vital items for the COVID Treatment Center. The items include: adhesive and caution tapes for demarcation per the IPC protocol, sprout can and a pharmaceutical mortar and pestle.

The team presented the items to the medical director of the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital, Dr. Joseph Kojo Tambil. Dr Tambil commended the team for the initiative and encouraged them to use their new skills to improve services at the COVID Treatment Center.