Accident & Emergency is open 24 hours. Walk in, or call ahead on 030 274 1999.
Our history
Two consulting rooms in 1998, and somebody awake every night since
Twenty-seven years of adding one thing at a time — a ward, a theatre, a labour suite, a laboratory — and keeping the handover that held them together.
Twenty-seven years
Six decisions that made this a hospital
Two consulting rooms on Nii Nortei Nyanchi Street
Dr. Yaa Nkrumah and a nurse open a general practice with eleven patients on the books and a borrowed ECG machine.
The first ward, and the first night shift
Twelve beds above the practice. Somebody has been awake in this building every night since.
A theatre of our own
General surgery starts on site, which ends the two-hour transfer to Korle Bu for a routine appendix.
The maternity unit opens
A four-bed labour suite on the same corridor as the theatre — the arrangement that decides how a difficult delivery ends.
The laboratory comes in house
Sending bloods across town had been costing our patients two days. It now costs them an afternoon.
Hope Direct, and the eighty-fourth bed
A video clinic for the people who do not need a waiting room, and a second inpatient floor for the ones who do.
Awake every night since 1998 ✦ Awake every night since 1998 ✦ Awake every night since 1998 ✦ Awake every night since 1998 ✦
Where that leaves us
Bigger than we planned, and run the same way
Eighty-four beds, twelve departments and sixty-eight thousand patients a year. The 07:30 handover has not changed since there were twelve beds and two people at it.
27
Years open
84
Beds
210
Staff
68
kPatients a year
Accident & Emergency
Open every hour of every day, including the ones nobody plans for
Emergency line +233 30 274 1999. Ambulances dispatched from 14 Nii Nortei Nyanchi Street, Dzorwulu, Accra. If you can walk in, walk in — a triage nurse sees everyone at the door.
