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Kintampo College of Health and Well Being (CoHK)
Director - Dr ET Adjase MD, MPH, DHSM, CCS.
Formerly called Kintampo Rural Health Training School (KRHTS), we are a Ministry of Health college training middle-level health professionals in Ghana. Our student population is 1800 with 50+ full time and 50+ part time tutors. We offer a wide range of courses at both pre-service and service levels.
Our courses meet Ghana health sector needs particularly in the areas of statistics, epidemiology, disease control & surveillance, reproductive and child health , health information system management, economics of health, environment and health, nutrition and health, health education and promotion, health systems research and project development, financial management, monitoring and evaluation.
We provide a unique environment for intellectual development, attracting highly qualified candidates from the length and breadth of the country. We offer courses to Degree level.
Background to CoHK
We became fully established by the Ministry of Health in 1969. Our mandate is to turn out quality multi-purpose health personnel for the provision of quality health care in the country.
So far, CoHK is the only college of its kind in the country. Our motto, “Educating For Service” has the guiding principle of producing human resource capable of providing health services that are:
Simple in operation
Extensive in scope
Economic in cost and yet
Efficient in quality.
Since opening, the college has lived up to this principle and turned out hundreds of Medical Assistants, Technical Officers and Field Technicians who have made immense contributions to the reduction of disability, suffering, morbidity and mortality particularly among marginalized populations in Ghana.
Collaborating institutions
We collaborate with the following institutions:
The School of Public Health – University of Ghana, Legon,
The Department of Community Health – School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana
Quasi Government Institutions
The Military, Police and Prisons
CHAG Institutions, District Assemblies
Regional & District Health Administrations and Hospitals
WHO
UNICEF
Population Council (USAID) & JHPIEGO country offices
University of Utah Medical School and Physician Assistant Programme, Salt Lake City, USA
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
University of Winchester, UK
Facilities
We have a library, conference hall and computer laboratory facilities. We are a venue for local and international workshops, conferences and seminars. Teaching and learning is enhanced with the presence of demonstration and syndicate rooms equipped with teaching & learning materials.
Kintampo
Kintampo is the historical centre of Ghana. Located on the main Accra-Techiman–Tamale highway, it provides easy access to major cities and towns in the country and beyond. The town serves as a transit point for local and international travellers and is always booming with commercial activities. There are beautiful waterfalls and game reserves within easy reach with lots of wonderful landscapes that add to the tourist attractions in the area.
Academic staff
We have large body of resident tutorial staff with rich experience and expertise in all aspects of health and health related disciplines. Over fifty part time lecturers and adjunct faculty who are engaged according to their areas of specialization and competences further augment our full time academic staff.
Kintampo College of Health to be upgraded to University College
The College of Health and Well-Being, Kintampo (CoHK), a diploma and higher diploma awarding institution, has since May 2015 received authorization to be upgraded to a University College, Mr. Isaac Azindow, the acting Principal of the College has announced.
He said the Ministry of Health (MoH), the Executive Secretary of the Health Training Secretariat and the government of Ghana, are acting together to support the College to facilitate an institutional affiliation process to be shared between the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the University of Cape Coast.
Mr. Azindow made the announcement at the first ever alumni home-coming event of the College at Kintampo in the Brong-Ahafo Region.
Under the shared arrangement, Mr. Azindow, said programmes including Community Oral Health, Registered Dental Surgery Assistants, Nutrition, Disease Control and Surveillance, Health Information, Laboratory Technology, Health Promotion and Health Record Management, will be under the ambit of KNUST.
The UCC will also be responsible for Post Basic Medical Assistant, Direct Physician Assistants, Clinical Psychiatry, Community Mental Health Officers and Clinical Dermatology programmes, the acting Principal added.
The acting head of the college, indicated that accreditation inspection of facilities by the National Accreditation Board, has already been done to pave way for the College’s accreditation soon.
The two-day get-together, attended by the College’s alumni in professional practice across the country aimed at updating them about the present state of the institution to identify how they could contribute in different ways to boost its infrastructure development to meet its present status.
It was also to inform them of the opportunities their alma mater’s elevation would provide for their individual professional development or academic progression.
The acting Principal observed the alumni had the human capital and financial resource capacity to support the College to grow at a faster rate and catch-up with other tertiary institutions.
With effective collaboration, the College and the alumni could make a great difference in the development of competent health human resource for Ghana, the West-African sub-region and beyond, he added.
Mr. Azindow mentioned students and staff accommodation, lecture halls and transport for both students’ field practical activities and for tutors supervision as some of their major infrastructural challenges.
Mr. George Kumi Kyeremeh, Director- General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) represented Mr. Alex Segbefia, the Minister of Health has collaborated with government to upgrade the College into a full-fledged degree-awarding institution.
Mr. Kyeremeh expressed the hope those degree programmes when mounted would have priority for the continuing professional development of the College’s alumni.
Mr. Lawrence Odartey Lawson, the acting Executive Secretary, Health Training Institutions Secretariat at the Health Ministry announced that his outfit was procuring text-books in hard copies and electronic CD versions for the training institutions and assured that CoHK was on the list of beneficiaries to enhance its teaching and learning.
Some of the old students interviewed including Mr. Clement Avoka, their President commended the Management and staff of the College for organizing the home-coming programme and expressed their willingness to support the Governing Board and Management to move the institution forward.