What we treat
Eight departments, one building, one set of notes
Everything below happens on this site. Bloods go to our own laboratory, films are read in the same corridor, and a surgical opinion is a walk across the courtyard rather than a referral to Accra.
Book an appointmentWhat we treat
Eight departments, one building
Outpatients & family medicine
The front door of the hospital. General consultations six days a week, with the same doctor each time wherever we can manage it.
Maternity & newborn care
Antenatal clinic, delivery suite and a four-cot nursery, staffed by midwives who have delivered half this neighbourhood.
Surgery & theatre
Hernias, appendices, caesareans and orthopaedic lists, with a theatre team on call through the night.
Diagnostics & laboratory
Bloods, malaria and typhoid screens, ultrasound and X-ray on site — most results the same day, none of them posted to a lab in Accra.
Physiotherapy & rehabilitation
Recovery after a stroke, a fracture or a joint replacement, in a gym built for it rather than a corner of a ward.
Senior care & chronic disease
Hypertension, diabetes and the long conditions that need somebody to remember you. Monthly reviews and a nurse who calls if you miss one.
Emergency, 24 hours
A doctor on site every hour of the day and night, an ambulance on the forecourt, and no closing time.
Inpatient wards
Seventy-four beds across general, maternity and paediatric wards, with room for the person who came in with you.
Before you come in
Answers to the questions we get asked
If the answer you need is not here, call the switchboard and ask. Somebody will find out rather than guess.
What happens if it is an emergency?
Come straight in, at any hour — the emergency entrance is on the Civic Centre side and there is a doctor on site every hour of the day and night. If you need an ambulance, call +233 24 418 6207. Do not wait for a callback and do not stop to arrange payment first.
Can I ask for a particular doctor?
Yes, and we would rather you did. Continuity is most of what makes a chronic condition manageable, so we try to give every regular patient the same doctor at every visit. Tell reception the name when you book and they will work around the clinic list.
Do you admit children?
We do. The paediatric ward has fourteen beds and a parent stays with every child under twelve — there is a bed beside the cot, not a chair in the corridor. Immunisations and the child welfare clinic run on Tuesdays and Fridays.
How long do results take?
Most bloods, malaria and typhoid screens are back the same day, because the laboratory is in this building rather than in Accra. Ultrasound is reported by the end of the clinic. Anything sent away is chased by the ward, and somebody calls you either way.
When can I visit somebody on the ward?
Visiting is 10am to 12pm and 4pm to 7pm, and one person may stay overnight with any patient who wants them there. We do not enforce the afternoon hours on the maternity ward, for reasons anybody who has had a baby will understand.
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.
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