Central University To Build Teaching Hospital

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Dr. Mensah Otabil cutting the sod for the construction to commence

CENTRAL UNIVERSITY, a leading chartered private
university in the country, is to put up a modern teaching hospital at its main
campus at Miotso, near Tema in the Greater Accra Region.

The project is to offer students in the medical
and allied sciences direct on-campus clinical skills exposure and also offer a
much needed service to the local community.

First phase of the project consists of the
construction of a clinic and upgrading it to a comprehensive teaching hospital
and medical school.

“The reason why we are doing this is to give
our students practical experience of location where they can see doctors
practising, nurses working and patients being worked on…” the Vice Chancellor
of the university, Prof. Bill Buenar Puplampu, said on Monday.

He added that the university was also working
to improve its research and advocacy footprint, saying they wanted to grow and
consolidate the effort to get their students to have strong ethical values.

Prof.
Puplampu commended the University Council and the ICGC for their vision for the
project.

The
Chancellor of the university, Dr. Mensah A. Otabil, said, “We are building
something we can manage excellently and grow with it instead of building something
prestigious and big but becomes a liability over time.”

The facility would be built on
about 30-acre land and it is expected to be completed in 2022 to serve the
people of Miotso, Dawhenya, Prampram, Ningo, Tema, Sege, Tsopoli, among others.

From Vincent Kubi, Miotso