Our Journey
From Six Cots To Thirty-One Sub-Specialities
Seventeen years on the same street, and an outcome report published every March whether or not it flatters us.
Children seen last year
Years on Volta Street
Paediatric sub-specialities
Neonatal survival above 1kg
The Journey
Seventeen Years, Told Honestly
Every date below is checkable, and the two years we do not mention are the two we would rather not repeat. They are in the annual report.
2009
Six cots above a pharmacy
Dr Kofi Adjei-Mensah and Dr Ama Serwaa Boateng open a paediatric clinic on the first floor of a pharmacy on Volta Street. Fourteen hundred children in the first year.
2013
The neonatal unit
Six cots become an eighteen-cot neonatal unit, staffed one nurse to two babies. It is the first unit in the district to put a parent bed beside every cot.
2016
Theatres, and the rule about lists
Two paediatric-only theatres open with pre-assessment the week before. The cancellation rate falls from a fifth of the list to under three per cent within a year.
2019
The children's emergency department
A paediatric emergency department opens, separate from the adult one down the road, and does not close again. Median door-to-doctor time is published from the first month.
2022
HeFRA accreditation, Level 3
Accredited as a Level 3 paediatric centre by the Health Facilities Regulatory Agency, and the first outcome report is published in full — including the parts nobody enjoyed writing.
2026
Thirty-one sub-specialities
Ninety-six beds, thirty-one paediatric sub-specialities and 41,000 children a year — and still nobody has been asked to leave their child here at visiting time.
The annual outcome report is published each March and covers mortality, readmission, theatre cancellation and complaints. It is on the website whether or not it is a good year.
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
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.
