Holy Family Hospital - Techiman

The Holy Family Hospital (HFH) was established in 1954 by the Medical Missions Sisters. It all began in early 1953 when three (3) founding elders of the St. Pauls Catholic Church of Techiman (now St. Paul Cathedral), visited the then Catholic Bishop of Kumasi Bishop Hubert Paulissen to express their desire for a Hospital for Techiman. The Bishop promised to solicit for funding for the project, and further redirected them to the Rev. Sr. Laetitia Flieger,a Medical Mission Sister, who was then helping in the construction of the buildings of the Berekum Holy Family Hospital for further discussions. The efforts of the Church elders were supported by the Techiman Traditional Council when the Techimanhene Nana Akumfi Ameyaw III made a personal donation of Twenty Thousand Pounds (20,000) towards the project. On the 7th of July 1953, the Techiman Local council set up a board to choose a site for the project. In October 1953, approval was received from the Ministry of Health for construct...