Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital

Ghanaian tertiary hospital in Kumasi in the Ashanti region, the second largest hospital in the country with about twelve hundred beds and the only tertiary health institution in the region. Completed in 1954 as Kumasi Central Hospital, renamed after the legendary priest Komfo Anokye and given teaching hospital status when the School of Medical Sciences of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology was founded in 1975, it provides specialist care across surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics, paediatrics, oncology and accident and emergency, runs a hospital pharmacy supplied through the national medical stores and hosts clinical teaching and research.