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March 16, 2024
The Ranking Member on the Health Committee of FC Parliament, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has called for caution in dealing with the indebtedness of public hospitals to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
Mr Akandoh responding to threat by the electricity distributor to go after these public health facilities said the situation is dire as the country is battling with hospitals that are sick.
“As I speak with you now, we even have sick hospitals: hospitals that are sick, the places that you are supposed to go and get treatment, they are already sick.We have situations that we don’t even have basic medical equipment for the hospitals; we have situations where our ambulance service, that is the emergency health care system is coming to its knees. You remember we bought not less than 300 ambulances and as I speak with you now, out of the 300 more than 100 have been grounded.”
According to him there are hospitals in the country that pose as death traps because we still have a situation where patients have to sleep on the floor, some have to sit on benches for treatment, “so we have a challenge already, we should not attempt to worsen the already precarious circumstances we find ourselves in the health sector.
Mr. Akandoh who was speaking on the Ghana Tonight Show on TV3 on Wednesday also intimated that the country even failed to improve access in the sector for sometime now, even though the attempt was made in the previous regime to add more than 6000 beds. It therefore becomes very difficult and unpleasant when people travel many kilometers to the hospitals only to be tuned away for lack of electricity. The implications therefore is death of such patients.
Ghanamps.com