Hale
Seventeen years on one street
The practice opened in 2009 with one doctor, one nurse and forty patients. Most of what has changed since is capacity; almost none of it is the way a consultation runs.
History
Seventeen years
How the practice got here
2009
Two rooms above a pharmacy
Dr Nii Hale left Korle Bu after eleven years and opened with a nurse, a desk and a list of forty patients. The whole practice fit in two rooms on the first floor.
2013
Nortei Ababio Loop
The move to the current building, and the second physician. It was the first year the clinic could see a family at short notice rather than at a fortnight's.
2016
The laboratory opens
Bloods in-house rather than sent across town. Turnaround went from three days to the same morning, which changed what a single appointment could actually settle.
2019
Ten years, and the under-fives clinic
A dedicated paediatric list twice a week, and the full childhood immunisation schedule. Roughly a third of the register is now under sixteen.
2022
Level II accreditation
The Ghana Standards Authority accredited the laboratory, and the practice joined its fourth and fifth private schemes. Fees went up on the wall the same week.
2026
Six doctors, and a seventh coming
Nine thousand two hundred patients on the register, eleven nurses and laboratory staff, and an emergency line answered by a doctor rather than a service.
“I left a teaching hospital because I wanted to know what happened to people after they went home. Everything about the way this clinic runs comes out of that one thing — the twenty minutes, the laboratory downstairs, the phone somebody actually answers at night.”
Dr Nii Hale, medical director
17
Years in Airport Residential
9200
+
Patients on the register
31
k
Laboratory tests run since 2016
6
Insurance schemes accepted
Same-week appointments
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