The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has reopened its Accident and Emergency (A&E) Centre to new patients, following a temporary freeze on admissions triggered by critical overcrowding.
The emergency facility, which was originally built to accommodate just 37 patients, had reached a breaking point before the suspension.
Staff were managing 61 active emergency cases, with another 34 patients waiting in the queue for medical attention.
Dr Yaw Opare Larbi, the Deputy Medical Director at KATH, confirmed to the media that the hospital has successfully cleared the backlog, freeing up the vital space required to safely resume admission.
The resolution follows an emergency stakeholder meeting convened by KATH management and its referring medical facilities.
Under a new coordination agreement, several clinics and hospitals agreed to retain their patients, while others stepped in to absorb specific emergency cases that would traditionally default to KATH.
Dr Larbi credited this sudden boost in inter-facility coordination as the primary reason the hospital was able to rapidly decongest the ward and restore emergency services.
However, the Deputy Medical Director warned that temporary coordination is not a permanent cure for a systemic issue.
He issued an urgent appeal for the construction of dedicated emergency centres across the country, stressing that the Ashanti region and Ghana as a whole are drastically underserved.
To permanently alleviate the crushing pressure on KATH, Dr Larbi also implored the government to fast-track and complete the delayed regional healthcare infrastructure such as Afari Military Hospital and the Sewia Regional Hospital.
Once fully operational, he said, these facilities will provide the regional buffer KATH desperately needs to prevent future gridlocks.