About: Founded in 1929, Ridge Hospital, now named The Greater Accra Regional Hospital (GARH) is now a leading healthcare provider in Accra following major renovations and upgrades in 2016. It serves as a regional hospital offering comprehensive healthcare services.
Located in the heart of Accra city, the GARH started as a Hospital for the European expatriates around 1928. It became a District Hospital after Ghana’s independence in 1957 and was later designated as Ridge Regional Hospital in 1997 and now redeveloped and transformed into an ultra-modern 420 bed capacity hospital with the full complement of specialist services that reflects the current social aspirations of the rapidly growing capital city of Ghana.
Prior to the redevelopment of the Hospital, the larger proportion of the infrastructure and equipment in the Hospital dated back to the period 1911-1923. The physical structures of the Hospital were weak and required huge maintenance cost on a yearly basis. Most of the clinical equipment were over aged and physical space to deliver health care services to clients remained a major challenge. The hospital’s bed compliments (192) at the time was apparently overstretched culminating in congestion in all the clinical departments. The Hospital provided service to over 800 outpatients and 250 in-patients on daily basis. About 29 percent of the in-patients did not have patient beds. Only 192 patients out of the 250 patients on admission at any time had beds which meant that about 50 patients were either on wheel or benches. The corridors at the OPD and the wards were turned into admission area for emergency care, where cases were admitted and nursed on trolleys in the open area. There were also no offices and rest rooms for the service providers.
Even though some renovation works as well as new constructions were carried out over the years to accommodate increasing numbers of clients in the hospital, they were on adhoc basis with a large number of individual buildings in different shades of quality, size, architecture and appearance. The placement of buildings were thus haphazard and did not facilitate a smooth flow for patient care
In response to these concerns and challenges, the Government of Ghana, in the context of its commitment to improving healthcare infrastructure towards Universal Health Coverage, made an impressive effort to replace the old hospital with new ultra-modern facilities that reflect the current social aspirations of the rapidly growing capital city of Ghana.
Vision
All communities having access to timely, quality and comprehensive health care
Mission
To provide and prudently manage comprehensive and accessible health service with special emphasis on primary health care at regional, district and sub-district levels in accordance with approved national policies
Services: General outpatient care, surgery, maternal and child health, diagnostics, and specialized clinics (orthopedics, ENT, etc.).
Contact:
Location: Accra
Phone: +233-302-221-441
Website: Overview of GARH – Greater Accra Regional Hospital
