About the hospital
Six maternity beds in 1998. Seventy-four now.
Vale was opened by a midwife who was tired of sending women to Accra. It has grown into a general hospital with its own theatre, laboratory and physiotherapy unit — and it is still run on the assumption that the person in the bed has a family sitting outside it.
Book an appointmentWhy families in Ho come here
A hospital that knows your family
Vale has looked after this town since 1998, when it was six maternity beds behind the Civic Centre. It is a 74-bed hospital now, with its own theatre, laboratory and physiotherapy unit — and the same habit of telling you what is happening in words you did not have to study medicine to follow.
What we hold ourselves to
Three things we will not trade away
Everything else about this hospital has changed since 1998 — the building, the theatre, the number of beds. These have not.
A named doctor, every time
Continuity is most of what makes a long condition manageable, so we schedule around it rather than around the rota. If you have been seeing Dr. Bansah for three years, you will keep seeing Dr. Bansah.
The quote is the price
Anything the NHIS does not cover is written down, with a figure, before it starts. If the treatment changes we stop and talk first — nobody at this hospital adds to a bill while somebody is on a trolley.
Your people stay with you
One person may stay overnight with any patient who wants them there, and there is a bed rather than a chair. A hospital that sends the family home at six has misunderstood what it is for.
Serious medicine, delivered gently. Consultants, midwives and nurses who tell you what they are doing, and why, before they do it.
Every admission gets a named consultant, a written plan and one person on the ward whose job is to answer your family's questions. Nobody here is passed between doctors without being told.
How we work26
+Years in Ho
Six maternity beds in 1998; seventy-four beds, a theatre and a laboratory now.
9400
+Patients a year
Outpatients, admissions, deliveries and emergencies, across the Volta Region.
A doctor on site every hour of every day, and a theatre that does not close at five
Whoever came in with you stays with you, on the ward and in the room
NHIS accredited, with the price of everything else written down before it starts
Who will see you
The people who will be looking after you
Fourteen doctors, sixty-one nurses and midwives, and a laboratory that does not go home at five. These six run the departments most people arrive needing.
Dr. Dzifa Ahiable
Medical Director
Family medicine. Came back from Korle Bu in 2011 to run the outpatient department and never left it.
Dr. Akpene Bansah
Consultant physician
Hypertension, diabetes and the long conditions. Runs the Thursday chronic disease clinic.
Dr. Senyo Agbeko
Consultant surgeon
General and orthopaedic lists. Twenty-two years of theatre, eleven of them here.
My mother was admitted on a Sunday night and the doctor who saw her at midnight was the same one who discharged her on Thursday. Nobody made us feel like we were interrupting.
Comfort Adzo Mensah
Ho Bankoe
There is a bed, and there is a doctor
Outpatients runs Monday to Saturday, 7am to 7pm. Emergency is open every hour of every day — including the ones nobody plans for.
Vale