Prof. Otchere Addai-Mensah

Associate Professor


Dept: Medical Diagnostics
Department of Medical Diagnostics
Faculty of Allied Health Sciences
College of Health Sciences
KNUST

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Research Areas/Interests

Malariology( Immunology and Haematology) Haematology Immunology Global Health Immunoepidemiology...~more

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Achievements

Some Achievements as CEO of The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital

  1. Initiated, launched and led the Heal Komfo Anokye Project (HeKAP) to modernize facilities at the Hospital. A total of about four million dollars (USD 4 million) was raised for the Heal Komfo Anokye Project HeKAP, which saw to the modernization of the wards into a state comparable to any hospital anywhere in the world.
  2. Internally Generated Funds grew from GHC 115.8 m in 2023 → GHC 222.6 m in 2024 through improved financial discipline and revenue mobilisation.
  3. Expanded the Dialysis Unit of the Hospital from 2 dialysis machines at the beginning of my tenure to 20 at the end of my tenure of 28 months (2 → 20 machines).
  4. Initiated the construction of a new Pharmacy Block at a cost of USD 43 million solely from Internally Generated Funds.
  5. Digitization of staff health benefits; improved Electronic Medical Records usage; operational restructuring for administrative oversight was done.
  6. Began major renovations and facelifts of wards, the OPD, Psychiatry and Physiotherapy Departments.
  7. Improved staff morale and hospital image through welfare reforms.
  8. Increased staff medical allowance, created weekend supervision for directors and deputy directors of the Hospital that ensured executive presence on weekends and on holidays; strengthened professional development culture.
  9. Created a ‘chronic-patient’ medicine delivery system (via Ghana Post) which led to an enhanced outpatient services and improved waiting-time management.
  10. Abolished the payment of fees for the use of the public places of convenience
 
 
 

 

Some Achievements as Vice Dean of Students and Deputy Director Student Affairs

  1. Instituted the monthly meetings with Student MPs and student leaders. This meeting was “agendaless” and afforded the student leaders the opportunity to vent out their issues to the university management without restriction. This to a very large extent curbed student uprisings resulting from their misgivings.
  2. Played a crucial role in the upgrading the office of the Dean of Students to a Director level equivalent to a Provost and defended same at the level of the University Council.
  3. Pushed for, and secured a bus for the department for the very first time in 2016.
  4. Got private sponsorship to the tune of USD18,000 to secure microscopes, an Elisa Reader and a spectrophotometer for the department at no cost to the University.
  5. Spearheaded and introduced both the MPhil and PhD programs in Haematology which have been running for the past 11years.


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