Tamale Teaching Hospital Gets €1M ICT Facility

From Left: CEO of TTH Dr. Sagoe in Suite Looks on as Adu-Twum (1st Right) Explains How Machines work

A sophisticated state-of-the-art Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) facility worth €1million Euros has been set-up at the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) in the Northern Region of Ghana.

The initiative is intended to let management and staff of the hospital move from the overdependence on paper to process documents/data to an alternative and more secured medium driven by a technology that allows volumes of such important data and documents to be stored.

This new innovation single-handedly initiated by a Ghanaian Computer Networking Engineer based in The Netherlands Clement Adu-Twum, with support from ROC Mondrian, an ICT company based in that country, makes the TTH the first health institution in Ghana and probably in West Africa, to have such a huge wide area network facility that would also facilitate the practice of telemedicine.

Disclosing this to a group of journalists during a tour of the facility, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the TTH Dr. Ken Sagoe, said Mr. Adu-Twum aside donating such an expensive facility, led an eight-member team of ICT experts and students to the hospital to provide training to some staff so as to boost their understanding of the whole setup for proper use.

Room Containing Equipments Donated to TTH

He commended the donor and promised to put the facility to proper use because TTH was only privileged to have benefitted that much and could not afford to misuse anything.

The components of the ICT facility include over 200 high-speed flat screen computers, 30 computer laptops, 10 dell power edge servers, 23 cisco core switches, 3 information flat screens, 54 cisco wireless points, 60 printers and over hundred office chairs and tables.

The CEO of TTH Dr. Ken Sagoe also expressed his appreciation to Vodafone Ghana for extending to the hospital a free fibre optic cable worth GH¢58,000.00 to make the building of the ICT facility possible.

On his part, Mr. Adu-Twum said he could not take credit for the donation because he felt it was partly his responsibility as a Ghanaian to also contribute his quota to the development of the country considering the enormous expertise he had acquired in his stay abroad.

He appealed to his fellow countrymen abroad to endeavour to assist institutions back home with their expertise and resources that they have at their various places of work which they might not need again.

Mr. Adu-Twum also thanked the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the Migration for Development in Africa (MiDA) under whose project his plan to help Tamale Teaching Hospital materialized.