HOSPITAL’S BACKGROUND
Ga West Municipal Hospital was established as a health center in the year 1984 and was later designated as a Municipal Hospital in the year 2008. It is located within Amasaman opposite the Ga West Municipal Assembly.
It is the only government hospital located between Nsawam Government Hospital in the Eastern Region and Ga North Municipal Hospital in Greater Accra Region. It is a level B facility that offers general services. The hospital provides services for people located between these two facilities and beyond.
MISSION STATEMENT
Provide quality comprehensive and accessible health services in line with approved national policies whilst managing resources prudently for the benefit of residents of Ga West Municipality and beyond.
VISION STATEMENT
To become a Hospital that provides top notch health services in a friendly environment with highly motivated staff and to serve as the leading referral facility in Ga West Municipality and beyond.
Core Managers of the Facility
Dr. Eric Sarpong-Ntiamoah
Medical Superintendent
Mr. Bernard Fiifi Polley
Hospital Administrator
Ms. Faustina Klu
Head of Finance
Mrs. Diana Ofori- Larbi
Head Of Nursing
Ms. Happy Ekar Smart
Head of Pharmacy
Dr. Clarence Leke - Fonkeng
Head of Clinical Services
Services Provided
- Curative care, preventive care, and promotion of health of the people in the district
- Quality clinical care
- Treatment techniques, such as surgery
- Laboratory and other diagnostic techniques appropriate to the medical, surgical, and outpatient activities of a district hospital
- Inpatient care until the patient can go home or back to the health centre
- Training and technical supervision to health centres, as well as a resource centre for health centres
- Twenty-four-hour hospital services
- The following are some of the clinical services we provide:
- Obstetrics and gynaecology
- Child health
- Medicine
- Surgery, including anaesthesia
- Accident and emergency services
- Non-clinical support services
- Referral services
- Contribution to the district-wide information generation, collection, planning, implementation, and evaluation of health service programmes.
Ga West Municipal Hospital has a collective governance structure where the administrative part of the organization and the professional clinical part of the organization work hand in hand to to provide high quality services for its cherished clients.
There is the Head of Administration (HoA) in charge of health administration and support service, the Head of Clinical Services in charge of the professional clinical part of the organization, the Head of Nursing in charge of nursing services, the Head of Finance (HoF) in charge of financials, and the Head of Pharmacy who is charge of pharmaceutical services. They all report to the Medical Superintendent who is the Head of the institution.
- 4,300 babies are delivered at the hospital
- 55,000 OPD cases are seen at the hospital
- 7,500 patients were admitted and managed at the hospital