The American visitors posed with the hospital staff
A-30 member United States of America visiting team has held bilateral talks with the management of the Brong Ahafo Regional Hospital, Sunyani as part of efforts to link the facility to sister international institutions.
The team, led by a US-based Ghanaian, Nana Odeneho Osei Kwabena, a former president of Bono-Ahafo Association of Columbus, Ohio, also sought to facilitate collaboration between the hospital and other US health institutions.
Nana Odeneho Osei Kwabena explained to DAILY GUIDE that the team intended to introduce sister hospital relationship between the Sunyani Regional Hospital and the Ohio State University Medical Centre.
He explained that the team was at the facility to interact with the hospital officials to know the areas they could assist.
A member of the delegation, Professor Jamie A. Greene, principal of Ohio State University, said they were in Ghana to explore on relationship; about how their communities in the US could work with the Sunyani Regional Hospital to improve healthcare at the facility.
Prof Greene mentioned that the team is interested in facilitating the transfer of medical equipment no longer in use to the Regional Hospital.
The Head of Administration of the Brong Ahafo Regional Hospital, Abraham Asare Bediako, during a meeting with the team and the hospital core management members, commended the team for choosing the hospital to link it up with sister institutions in the US.
He expressed the hope that the discussion with the American delegation would bear fruits to improve healthcare delivery at the hospital.
Mr. Asare Bediako said most of the equipment in the hospital needed to be replaced, expressing the hope that the collaboration with the US team would help to address that challenge.
He further mentioned that the hospital needed funds to run the facility since the internally generated funds (IGF) were not enough to manage the facility, making it difficult to attract technical staff and specialists.
 FROM Fred Tettey Alarti-Amoako, Sunyani