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University of Ghana (UG) through the Government of Ghana has sourced a loan facility of $217 million from the Israeli Government to construct a 600-bed teaching hospital at Legon.
When completed all the University’s constituent institutions would be relocated from the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital at Mamprobi to the new hospital.
The project will be equipped with state-of-the-art facilities for trauma and emergency service with a heliport and internal medicine including Surgery, Obstetrics and gynecology, paediatrics, cardiology, heart surgery and medicinal imaging.
Professor Ernest Aryeetey, Vice-Chancellor, UG, speaking at the ground breaking ceremony to commence the construction work, said the project would be a model of the Sheba Medical Centre in Israel.
He said the facility would provide specialized medical service, which would afford Ghanaians and the people in the sub-region the opportunity to access quality medical care in Ghana.
He said there would be a skill training unit for undergraduates and residency training. “It will also provide additional opportunity for inter-disciplinary research and teaching which ultimately enhance the quality of facilities available for modern medical and health science education,” he added.
Prof Aryeetey noted that the project marked the beginning of relocating the Korle Bu of the University where a 400 acre parcel of land had been waiting for years to be occupied.