Our history
Thirty-eight years on the same street
We have never moved. Everything that follows happened at, above or beside 14 Castle Road — which is why the neighbourhood treats the place as theirs, and why we behave as though it is.
Thirty-eight years
One department at a time
None of this was a plan. Each of these was the next thing the neighbourhood needed that we could not yet do.
1987
Six beds above a pharmacy
Dr Grace Mensah-Bonsu opens a maternity home on the first floor of 14 Castle Road, with six beds, two midwives and a generator that ran most nights.
1994
The first theatre
A single operating theatre goes in at the back of the ground floor, which turns a maternity home into somewhere a caesarean can safely be done.
2002
Paediatrics, and a second floor
The building goes up rather than out. A children's ward opens with fourteen beds and, at Dr Ama Asante's insistence, its own waiting room.
2009
A&E opens, and never closes
Twenty-four hour emergency cover starts, with the rule that has defined the place since: a consultant physically in the department on every shift.
2014
Our own laboratory
Haematology, chemistry and microbiology come in-house. Routine results drop from two days to four hours and stop depending on somebody else's courier.
2019
The maternity wing
Four delivery rooms, two obstetric theatres and a six-cot special care nursery. Dr Efua Adjei delivers the first baby in it on the eleventh of March.
2022
East Legon and Tema
Two outpatient sites open, sharing one patient record with Adabraka — so a scan taken in Tema is on the consultant's screen in Accra the same afternoon.
2025
A hundred and eighty beds
The east wing brings the hospital to 180 beds, 14 departments and 62 resident specialists, thirty-eight years after the first six.
“I did not set out to build a hospital. I set out to stop sending women to Korle Bu in a taxi at midnight, and every year after that there was one more thing we could stop sending people away for.”
Dr Grace Mensah-Bonsu, founder, 1987–2016
14
Clinical
departments
62
Resident
specialists
180
Inpatient
beds
38
Years of
care in Accra
Somebody is on the desk right now
Book a clinic, ask about a bill, or call the emergency line and speak to the department itself. No switchboard, no queue system.
