Apollo Hospitals inks pact with Ghana for healthcare services

Apollo Hospitals Group today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Republic of Ghana to develop tertiary healthcare services in the African country and to provide specialised medical treatment for the country’s patients at some of the former’s facilities in India.

As per the agreement, signed by Victor Asare Bampoe, deputy health minister, Ghana, and Hari Prasad, chief executive officer (central region) of Apollo Hospitals, Apollo will provide high-end tertiary healthcare services at its centres in India to patients referred by Ghana’s ministry of health.

Under the partnership, Apollo will assist in identifying gaps in the current healthcare facilities, including infrastructure, equipment and skills, at Korle Bu Hospital in Accra in the country’s south and other government-run hospitals in Ghana, Apollo said in a press release.

Apollo’s consultants will conduct cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, nephrology, neurosurgery and paediatric specialty clinics in Ghana, besides training its medical and paramedical personnel through exchange programmes. Clinical lectures and continued medical educational (CME) programmes by specialists from Apollo would also be hosted.

For a two-year period, all Apollo Hospitals would be linked through tele-medicine with hospitals in Ghana for free super-specialty consultations.