Sunyani: The Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) hospital in the Sunyani Metropolis has honored outstanding staff and health workers for their hard work and dedicated services in 2024.
According to Ghana News Agency, the awardees were selected from various departments and units of the hospital. They received citations and framed photographs of themselves during a thanksgiving service held at the hospital's premises in Sunyani. Pastor Maxwell Obour Boateng Awuah, President of the Midwest Ghana Conference of the SDA Church and Board Chair of the Hospital, commended the awardees for their hard work during a sermon.
Pastor Awuah emphasized that health work is a divine call and encouraged the health workers at the facility to serve with compassion, humility, diligence, and confidence to improve quality health outcomes. He reminded nurses and other personnel that they are not only health workers but also comforters, urging them to remain sensitive to their clients' needs and work to touch their hearts.
Additionally, Pastor Awuah cautioned against the extensive use of social media during working hours, advising health workers to use the internet productively to enhance healthcare delivery. "We must also try and sacrifice our time for our clients because they look on us to live," he stated.
Mr. Enoch Nketia, the Administrator of the Hospital, highlighted the facility's significant achievements, noting that it had not recorded any maternal deaths in the past four years. Furthermore, the facility handled over 700,000 Out-Patient Department (OPD) cases between 2014 and 2024.
Established in 2005 with only four hospital beds, Mr. Nketia mentioned that the facility now boasts 96 beds, a standard emergency ward, antenatal clinic, maternity ward, female and male wards, records and health information unit, theatre, laboratory, accounts, eye and physiotherapy units. The facility also has 15 private wards and three consulting rooms, with its pathology unit offering histopathology, cancer diagnosis, and cytology services.
