IDTC CONSTRUCTION COMPLETED IN GHANA

Infectious Disease Treatment Centre (IDTC) constructed in Tamale, Ghana to help the country attain her Millennium Development Goals which was requested by WHO after Ebola outbreak.

The hospital which is an Infectious Disease Treatment Centre (IDTC) is expected to increase the nation’s emergency preparedness and response to outbreaks of contagious diseases. The hospital which is located in Tamale, Ghana is worth US $333,000 and was funded by the Korean government under the auspices of the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).

Deputy Minister for Health, Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu; “The IDTC needs competent staff and appropriate equipment to ensure effective and efficient delivery of suitable services to clients sent to the centre.”

The Deputy minister also requested that the Honourable Regional Minister and the Metropolitan Chief Executive should work together and consider extending an access road to the centre and also provide a gated fence wall to secure the premises.

The project is expected to help the country succeed in attaining her Millennium Development Goals bearing in mind that the World Health Organization asked for its construction in the wake of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa back in 2014.