Physician & Healthcare Entrepreneur at Adom Health Group
Built two clinics and a diagnostics business. Learned most of it the hard way.
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Ama trained as a physician at Korle Bu before founding a chain of primary-care clinics in Kumasi and Accra. She now advises healthcare founders on operations, regulation, staffing and the unglamorous financial realities of running a facility in Ghana. She speaks openly about the year her first clinic almost closed.
MB ChB; Member, Ghana Medical Association
Areas of focus
A closer look
From licensing with the HeFRA to hiring nurses who stay: what it actually takes to open and run a clinic that survives its second year.
Clinical excellence does not run a business. Six patterns I see repeatedly in doctors, pharmacists and health-tech founders who struggle.
Fourteen months of late reimbursements, a departing head nurse and a loan I could not service. How we got through it, and what I would do differently.
Why nurses leave small private facilities, what they say they want, and what actually kept mine.
I'm a lab scientist thinking of starting a standalone diagnostics centre in Kumasi.
Often, yes - the regulatory load is lighter, the equipment is the main cost, and referral relationships with clinics give you demand without marketing. The trap is consumables and service contracts; price those before you buy anything.
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