Speaking on Radio Gold’s newspaper review on Tuesday, Professor Afua Hesse noted that though doctors are on strike, the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital will ensure that patients on admission are not endangered because of the strike action.
The striking medical doctors have withdrawn all essential services, including emergency cases, until government addresses the inconsistencies in their 2012 market premium and conversion difference.
The doctors who have embarked on strike, for a couple of weeks now, refused to render services to new patients who are admitted into the various hospitals.
But according to the C.E.O of the Korle Bu Teaching hospital, the authorities are adopting a plan to safeguard patients who will be newly admitted in the hospital.
“Cases that eventually get to our doorsteps, we are taking steps to ensure that their lives are not put at risk.” she said.
She however advised patients not to make Korle-Bu hospital their point of call because the hospital “is supposed to be a referral centre. You are not meant to come here as the primary point of call. So, I would urge that they go to the facilities that can give them the primary care that they need. And those facilities can fall in and we can do what we can if the attention that the patients need get beyond them.
“As much as possible, patients should use the facilities that are fully opened but if patients do come here, we will make sure that they are taken care of.”
She also hoped for a speedy resolution of the conflict that has necessitated the doctors’ strike.
“All we are hoping and praying, and working towards is for a speedy resolution of the issue so that both doctors and pharmacists can come back, so that we can render the services that we need to render. Because the issue is not just the doctors but the pharmacists, government pharmacists, are also on strike.”
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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