The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has achieved a reduction in institutional maternal deaths between January and June 2026, recording a drop from 78 deaths at mid-year 2025 to 55 in the corresponding period this year.

​At the hospital’s 2026 Mid-Year Performance Review Conference today, Chief Executive Officer Dr Paa Kwesi Baidoo attributed the drop in fatalities to targeted clinical mentorship and capacity-building outreach programmes in peripheral facilities, organised in collaboration with the Ashanti Regional Health Directorate.

​"We also recorded a welcome reduction in institutional maternal deaths from 78 at mid-year 2025 to 55 in the corresponding period this year," Dr Baidoo said.

He emphasised that the primary objective of regional outreach "is to improve clinical care and quality of referrals from the peripheral hospitals in the region and beyond, especially in the area of maternal care."

​Beyond maternal health, he said, KATH recorded strong overall performance, exceeding several key operational targets. 

Dr Baidoo highlighted that Specialist Out-Patient Department (OPD) attendance reached 149,055, surpassing the mid-year target of 139,740, and emergency attendances rose 8.66 per cent year-on-year to 14,467 cases, as laboratory services executed 174,367 cases against a target of 160,401.

He highlighted major health infrastructure additions, notably the completion of the hospital's Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Centre set to open this month.

​"By this feat, KATH has emerged as the first public health facility to boast of a state-of-the-art specialist fertility centre in the country," Dr Baidoo declared. 

Other key projects he enumerated include the operationalisation of the Main Dialysis Centre, a GHS2.2 million renovation of the Doctors’ Flats "J" block, and ongoing construction of a specialist Oncology Centre and Nephrology facility.

​Despite these achievements, Dr Baidoo acknowledged that deliveries, surgeries, physiotherapy, radiotherapy, and certain admission figures fell short of targets.

​"These shortfalls are not ignored; they form the basis of the corrective strategies we will refine during this review," he assured stakeholders.