DOCTORS STILL WORKING-KATH PRO

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A nurse attending to a patient
Management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital says medical doctors at the facility have not withdrawn all their services to the public. Speaking to Ashanti Today in Kumasi, the Public Relations Officer of the Hospital, Kwame Frimpong noted that members of the Ghana Medical Association working at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital are still attending to in-patients and other medical situations.

 The PRO confirmed also to Ashanti Today that management of the referral facility were in an emergency meeting attended by all the Departmental Heads and Directors to discuss urgent matters affecting the effective running of the hospital. 

Mr. Frimpong confirmed that issues discussed at the meeting included the directive of the Minister of Health, Alex Segbefia that all public hospitals should resume the provision of full range of healthcare services to healthcare seekers.

 He however declined to give out any information about the measures being adopted to ensure the hospital resumes attending to patients since he had not been permitted to do that. 

Meanwhile, a tour of the hospital to ascertain their compliance level of the Health Minister’s directive showed that both the main Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and the Polyclinic were without patients at the Out Patient Departments and other popular sections as at 12midday today, Tuesday August 19. 

The Accident and Emergency Centre popularly known as the Trauma Centre was no different as the usually busy centre had virtually only health workers around with little work to do. 

At the Kumasi South Hospital at Kyirapatre, the OPD was almost full of healthcare seekers as at 10 am. 

What was not clear is whether patients were attended to by medical doctors or Physician Assistants, since the hospital has a number of both categories of care givers. 

At the time of the visit, the Ashanti Regional Director of Health, Dr. Alexis Nang-Beifuba was in a meeting with the Medical Director, Administrator and a senior medical doctor. 

The Medical Director and the Regional Director of Health declined to speak about the situation, with Dr. Nang-Beifuba in particular taking a swipe at the media for their handling of the doctors’ industrial action.

 He said the media have rather contributed to the current stalemate in the GMA-government negotiation. 

Meanwhile, the Minister of Health, Segbefia will arrive in Kumasi tomorrow for a day’s working tour of public hospitals in the Kumasi metropolis to ascertain the impact of the ongoing strike on their performance.

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