UCC Hospital Scores High in Key Health Priority Areas

UCC Hospital Scores High in Key Health Priority Areas

30 Sep, 2022 By DIS

The University Hospital under the Directorate of Health Services (DUHS) of University of Cape Coast has scored 92.8% in key health priority areas. This is according to visiting assessors from the Central Regional Health Directorate Peer Review Team.

 

Among the checklists of the assessors for the key health priority areas were mental health, triage system, maternal and child health services observation, intensified prevention and control of communicable diseases. Others were ensuring the reduction of new HIV/AIDS and other STIs, enhancing efficiency in governance and management of health system as well as Institutional Care among others.

 

The assessors were made up of laboratory scientists, doctors, accountants and pharmacists, among others, from various hospitals.

 

The peer review exercise, an initiative of the Central Regional Health Directorate, is aimed at helping determine whether the hospitals are adhering to the tenets of the health care delivery, as espoused in the principles and standard of the Ghana Health Service.

Director of DUHS, Dr. Evans Ekanem, making a point at the review meeting

 

At a durbar to review the UCC Hospital, the leader of the Regional Monitoring Team, Mr. Peter Kyeremateng, explained that the peer review exercise was to ensure continuous quality improvement in activities in the various hospitals.

 

He noted that the Regional Health Directorate had adopted a holistic assessment model in which health facilities in the region assess one another's performance using a peer review mechanism to ensure fair and independent assessment based on selected indicators.

 

He expressed satisfaction with the results scored by the UCC hospital and urged the hospital to maintain the feat chalked up in the assessment and praised the high spirit of commitment of health staff across UCC Hospital.

 

"Thank you UCC hospital for participating and holding the peer review concept. Peer review or no peer review, UCC hospital is improving," said Mr. Kyeremateng, who is also the Regional Chief Pharmacist.

 

 

He noted that health facilities were mandated by law to set up Public Health Units where health professionals would visit communities to screen inhabitants of hypertension, which has become an important public health concern in Ghana.

Deputy Director of DUHS, Dr. James Prah, also leader of the UCC Peer Review Team

The Deputy Director of the University Health Services, Dr. James Prah revealed that the peer review program had enhanced healthcare delivery at the hospital.

 

He said the hospital would not be complacent about its performance and expressed the hope that they would meet the standard set by the Regional Health Directorate at all time.

 

The Deputy Director said the Hospital chalked up the success as a result of dedication, commitment and endurance.

 

Dr. Prah, who is the leader of the University Health Services Peer Review Team, added that the Hospital would take seriously the concerns raised by the assessors and make conscious efforts to address the gaps identified by the assessors after their monitoring tour of the hospital.

 

The Pro Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Rosemond Boohene, who chaired the function, observed that the peer review programme would improve the performance of  health facilities in the region, to provide effective healthcare to the populace.

 

She urged the UCC Hospital to sustain the gains and encouraged the staff to continue to be nice to patients and clients to enhance good quality health delivery.

  

 

 

Source: Documentation and Information Section-UCC