Dear Mr @KMAkandoh and @mohgovgh, the CEO of KATH did not defy the President’s directive. What he did was a standard practice all over the world when emergency departments are under extreme pressure. What he did also mirrors your own proposed system.
Following the Charles Amissah incident, the ministry proposed an integrated bed management system to track bed availability in the various hospitals so that when an ambulance picks up a sick person, they will know where a bed is available to take them. This plainly implies that the various hospitals will be updating the system as their beds are used up and so if they are at capacity, it will indicate on this system that they wouldn’t be able to accept new admissions.
This proposed arrangement fits perfectly in the KATH situation, so it is really surprising that the KATH CEO has been suspended for doing similarly, what the ministry is planning to implement nationwide. If through the integrated bed management system, a hospital is indicated to be at capacity, it cannot mean the same as the hospital turning away patients.
I am against hospitals turning patients requiring urgent treatment away for whatever reason, but that is completely different from the hospital taking measures to get people informed to use other hospitals rather than coming to them.
The suspension of the KATH CEO is a grave mistake and must be reversed.
“Do not turn patients away” is not the same as do not suspend admissions temporarily due to overcrowding or extreme pressure. When people make the journey to the emergency department, they are usually unaware of any capacity issues, and once they are there, HCWS are duty bound to attend to them. When they fail to do so, then they can be held accountable. In this case, people were made aware of the capacity issues, so they will use other facilities instead of going to KATH, which was under extreme pressure. It was a step in the right direction and the suspension by the Minister was wrong.
@SIKAOFFICIAL1 Punishing a hospital CEO for exposing a broken healthcare system is wild. KATH’s ER is congested because we have zero capacity, but the Ministry cares more about PR optics than actual beds. We’re literally choosing to manage headlines instead of managing the health crisis.
A community in Suhum is being forcibly displaced by individuals who want to engage in illegal mining. The woman who exposed these activities claims she’s facing death threats and feels unsafe. The community has reported the situation to police stations in Suhum and Takoradi yet nothing has been done. Even the DCE of that area was notified, but still nothing?? Are the authorities in this area compromised? What is going on?? #StopGalamseyNow
A community in Okanta, located in the Suhum area of the Eastern Region, is being forcefully displaced by a group of individuals who want to engage in illegal mining.
I reached out to a member who resides in the community, and she explained that multiple reports were allegedly filed at the Suhum Police Station and again at a station in Koforidua, yet nothing meaningful has come out of these complaints.
The District Chief Executive responsible for the area was also contacted, she claims, but despite these efforts, the community continues to face harassment and persistent threats from these individuals.
The individual who exposed what was happening claims she’s facing death threats and harassment from unknown callers. Several residential buildings were allegedly burnt to forcibly displace community members. This situation raises serious questions about our fight against illegal mining. We ask communities to report and fight galamsey yet when they do they’re not protected nor are they helped. They need our help. #StopGalamseyNow @barkervogues@ArmahKofiBuah@JDMahama
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I think it's about time they shut down Anglogold Ashanti - Obuasi mine.
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