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BY: Emmanuel Modey
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The Upper West Regional Referral Hospital in Wa has been operating at suboptimal capacity following a number of challenges facing the facility, including inadequate capital to purchase consumables.
There is also lack of medical professionals such as doctors and nurses, including vehicles, accommodation and the inability of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to reimburse the facility.
The Medical Director of the hospital,Dr Robert Amesiya, was speaking to the Daily Graphic in an interview in Wa last Wednesday.
The hospital began functioning on January 9,2020.
The $52-million hospital with state-of-the-art facilities was inaugurated onAugust18,2019 by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and later handed over to the Ghana Health Service after testing and commissioning of equipment.