The management of HopeXchange Medical Center in Kumasi has applauded the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for contributing immensely to the delivery of quality healthcare in Ghana. Mr Dominic Osei Kofi, General Manager of the facility, who made the commendation, said for more than a decade, the medical centre had been one of the beneficiaries and a partner of the American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) grant programme of USAID. This partnership, he said, had ensured that the hospital was endowed with state-of-the-art American technology medical equipment and expertise, which was serving Ghana with an American-inspired tripartite approach in clinical care, medical education and translational research.? Mr Osei Kofi in an interaction with a section of the media in Kumasi, said the partnership had brought in some leading American medical faculty members from Yale University, Mayo Clinic and others, to collaborate with local colleagues in research, transfer of knowledge and Amer ican inspired hospital standard medical practices at the facility. This, he said, had made the HopeXchange Medical Center a centre of medical training for the Ashanti Region and beyond, whereas the ASHA was facilitating in taking critical medical assistance to remote areas. The construction of the state-of-the-art maternal and child health centre, which is also an initiative under the ASHA/USAID partnership, when completed, would contribute immensely to the provision of the needed quality health care for mothers and children, especially, neonates in the country. The Centre would also advance the training of health care professionals and students in maternal and child health. Again, the hospital would soon take delivery of a mobile clinic to augment its medical outreach through the support. Mr Osei Kofi said the mobile clinic was expected to operate in underserved and remote communities, to take care of the people, particularly those who are poor, needy, and vulnerable, adding that, no one would be left b ehind in quality healthcare delivery because of distance or lack of access. Source: Ghana News Agency