Description
Habana Medical Service (HMS), the Premier Private Hospital in Northern Ghana was established in 2011 in the Tamale metropolis by Dr Thomas Winsum Anabah, a Consultant Anaesthesiologist with Masters in Critical Care and Emergencies. It started with in a four bedroom private house converted into a day clinic with an objective of attending to walk-in clients with non-communicable disease. Hard pressed with space, the living room was converted into a reception, nurses’ station and a dispensary. One of the four bed rooms was resourced to serve as a consulting room with diagnostic aids such as the ECG and ultrasound machines. One of the rooms was fixed for resuscitation, short observation, nebulization and day procedures (like change of catheter, injections etc).The third room was fixed to serve as a procedure room for pain management (nerve blocks and insertion of catheter for long term pain management). The fourth room was reserved for a laboratory. At the beginning this laboratory could only perform hematology and parasitology analysis. All other tests were outsourced to private laboratories.