About Us

A Children's Hospital, Built By People Who Meant It

Seventeen years in Airport Residential, 41,000 children a year, and one rule we have never bent: a parent stays.

A paediatrician handing a newborn back to her mother on the postnatal ward

Our Story

It Began With Six Cots And One Very Stubborn Idea

Sprout opened in 2009 above a pharmacy on Volta Street with six cots, two paediatricians and a conviction that children are not small adults and should not be treated in wards built for adults. The first year we saw 1,400 children. Last year we saw just over 41,000.

What has not changed is the rule we opened with: a parent stays. Every ward on this site has a parent bed beside every cot, and nobody has ever been asked to leave their child here at the end of visiting hours.

A paediatric nurse settling a young patient on the ward while his mother watches

A neonatologist holding a newborn on the postnatal round

A paediatrician talking a mother and her daughter through a consultation

Our Mission

Expert-Led Healing, Backed By Innovation

Led by consultant paediatricians who trained here and came back, Sprout pairs precision medicine with the patience a frightened six-year-old actually needs. Nobody is rushed through this building.

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Our Mission

To give every child in Ghana the same standard of paediatric medicine, and every parent the same standard of explanation — regardless of what they can pay or which language they would rather have it in.

Our Vision

To be the hospital Ghanaian families name first when a child is unwell, and the one West African paediatricians choose to train in — through published outcomes, ethical practice and a building children are not frightened of.

Children in the schoolyard at one of the hospital's outreach clinics

A children's ward at Sprout, painted in warm colours rather than clinical white

Built For Children

Built For Precision. Designed For Children.

Advanced imaging, dedicated paediatric theatres and play-based recovery rooms — every ward on a four-bed maximum, every wall painted by somebody who has met a four-year-old.

96

Beds, none of them in a bay of six

18

Neonatal cots, staffed one-to-two

4

Theatres, two of them paediatric-only

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Who Runs It

The People Who Answer For This Building

Dr Kofi Adjei-Mensah

Medical Director

Consultant paediatric cardiologist. Chairs the clinical governance board and signs off every published outcome before it goes out.

Abena Owusu-Ansah

Director of Paediatric Nursing

Runs the wards, the rota and the induction. Twenty-one years in paediatric nursing, seventeen of them here.

Yaw Ofori-Atta

Chief Operating Officer

Responsible for the things nobody thanks anybody for: the oxygen contract, the generator, and the fact that a scan booked today happens this week.

Dr Naa Dedei Quarshie

Head of Clinical Quality

Consultant paediatric neurologist. Runs the mortality and morbidity review, which meets whether or not there is anything comfortable to discuss.

Licensed by the Health Facilities Regulatory Agency and accredited as a Level 3 paediatric centre. Our board minutes and annual outcome report are published each March.

Our Promise

Four Things We Will Not Compromise On

Open Every Hour

A consultant paediatrician physically present from eight in the morning until midnight, and on call in the building overnight. Every night.

One Team, One File

Three specialities in one morning rather than three appointments in three months — and one set of notes that all of them write in.

Parents Stay

A parent bed beside every cot on every ward. Nobody has ever been asked to leave their child here at visiting time.

Said Plainly

Every result explained in words you can repeat to somebody else, and written down before you go home. Acronyms are our problem, not yours.

Parent Stories

What Families Say After They Go Home

My daughter was admitted at two in the morning and somebody rang me at six to say exactly what had happened and what would happen next. Nobody had ever done that before.

Adzo Fiadzo

Adenta, Accra

They let me stay in the room the whole night. The nurse explained the monitor to me twice without once making me feel stupid for asking.

Esi Amponsah

Tema

Dr Quarshie told me what she did not know as clearly as what she did. I have never been so reassured by somebody admitting the limits of a test.

Nii Armah Tetteh

East Legon, Accra

Always Within Reach

Paediatric Care That's Always Within Reach

Book a consultation, speak with our team, or head to us in an emergency. Our support is responsive, informed and continuous — and somebody answers the phone at three in the morning.

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