Rev. Fr. Ebenezer Kenneth Abban, PhD, has been appointed as the new Director Koforidua Diocesan Health Service effective April 1, 2025.
Fr. Abban is a healthcare person with a considerable number years of experience in the healthcare industry. Prior to his entry into the healthcare business, he had worked for several years and is skilled in the management of a not-for-profit government/ private organizations and versatile in strategic thinking, planning and controlling.
He is a public speaker and holds unto attention to details, empathy and innovation as trademark. He loves to read any readable material.
He studied philosophy, theology and spirituality for his initial parchment before proceeding to the United States of America for higher education in Healthcare Management; a program he successfully completed and graduated with a Master of Business Administration
focused in Healthcare Management from St. Joseph’s University, New York. Also, he holds a PhD in Hospital Administration.
Fr. Abban is an author and a writer; he has six publications to his credit in a peer-reviewed international journal of the Texila American University.
Some of his works are Assessment of the impact of Delayed Reimbursement by the National Health Insurance Scheme on the Supply Chain Management of St. Dominic Hospital, Akwatia, Ghana; Impact of Length of Stay on both Financial Health and Medical Outcomes of Mission Hospitals in Rural Ghana; Covid-19 Gateway for ICT Integration; The case of St. Dominic Hospital, Akwatia; Financial Health Affects Medical Outcomes; the Case of Some Mission Hospitals in Ghana.
He is an experienced steward in management and a catholic priest with 22 years of demonstrated history in the religious and healthcare institutions.
He is incardinated in the Catholic Diocese of Koforidua and has served in various capacities in the Diocese since his ordination in 2003 into the Catholic Priesthood.
He is a member of the Priest Senate of the Diocese since 2017. Again, he serves as the President of the Koforidua Diocesan Priests’ Association (KODPA) since 2021.
Since 2017, he has served as the Facility In-charge and Administrator of St. Dominic Catholic Hospital, Akwatia; a secondary facility credentialed by both the Health Facilities Regulatory Authority (Hefra) and the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
Under his watch, the Hospital has migrated from primary through secondary and recently to a teaching facility with an accreditation from the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons to train doctors in both the modular and the three-years residency membership programme in Family Medicine.
Besides, the Hospital has the accreditation to train in the modular programmes of Surgery, Family Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Further, the Hospital is accredited by the Medical and Dental Council to train house officers in all the four disciplines.
Source: DEPSOCOM, CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF KOFORIDUA
