Na'aba Akparibilla Medical Center

Working together, Kimoyo and its indigenous partner, African Turning Point Foundation (ATPF), built and opened in 2008 the Na'aba Akparibilla Medical Center in the Upper East Region (UER) village of Zebilla which is on the main highway between Bolgatanga and Baku.

Staffed by one full-time physician, a part-time pharmacist, lab tech, and several nurses, the Center treats over 100 patients per day, and it has the only fully-stocked pharmacy and ultra-sound equipment within a 90-mile radius.

Patients from as far away as Burkina Faso and Togo come to Zebilla to seek treatment at Na'aba Akparibilla Medical Center.

Kimoyo-ATPF has completed plans to add a surgical suite and a delivery room to the Medical Center at an estimated cost of $100,000. These additions are critically needed to meet the needs of patients in the UER.

After the surgical suite and delivery room is added, the Na'aba Akparibilla Medical Center will become economically self-sustaining through reimbursement for procedures from the Ghanaian Health System..

While the Na'aba Akparibilla Medical Center has made a positive difference in the lives of the people – especially children – who live in and around Zebilla and Lamboya Dam, it is not nearly adequate to address the devastating morbidity and mortality for children and adults in the UER.

Therefore, the next phase of providing world-class medical care in the UER being undertaken by Kimoyo-ATPF will be to build the International Hospital of West Africa (IHWA).

IHWA is envisioned as combining the highest levels of professional expertise and technological innovation to provide world class medical care.

IHWA will be an international institution because it will serve all of West Africa as well as medical tourists from countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Most important, however, IHWA will be truly international because its staff and students will be recruited not only from Ghana but from the best universities and medical schools throughout the world.

In addition to treating patients, IHWA will be a medical teaching and learning center of excellence to train not only indigenous and foreign physicians but also educate a wide range of medical technicians and physician-extenders – such as village health workers – who can serve as first responders in their communities.

IHWA is ideally located in Ghana’s UER – a region with overwhelming unmet healthcare needs, high infant mortality, 95% + childhood Malaria, AIDS, lower life expectancies for men and women and a rate of illiteracy higher than the national average. (See attached statistical and demographic information.)

When IHWA becomes operational, plans call for the Na'aba Akparibilla Medical Center to become a surgical, out-patient facility for ophthalmic and oral health care.