Dr. Amanski

|| 👨🏾‍⚕️ MD || 🇬🇭 🇬🇧🇺🇦 🇩🇪 || Health || IM ID Rheuma|| Public Health ||

[Dr. Amanski @dr_amanski]

“The best way to render someone powerless is to make them believe they have no power.” YOU put them there and YOU can remove them. The past few days has showed me that the youth CAN make a change come Dec. As Capt. Planet says: The POWER is YOURS!#FreetheCitizens #StopGalamseyNow

[The Asante Nation @Asante_nation]

Dear Hon. Kwabena Mintah Akandoh,

As the Member of Parliament for Sefwi Juaboso Constituency and now Minister for Health, you understand better than most the critical role the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) plays in the lives of the people of Sefwi and the entire Western North Region.

Long before the creation of the Western North Region, and even today, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital has remained the principal referral hospital for our people. Having grown up in Sefwi Asawinso (Kesiem), I know firsthand that from Sefwi Osei Kwadwo Krom through the Aowin enclave, including Suaman and Dadieso, all the way to Bibiani, the hospital that handles our most serious medical cases is Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.

For over seventy years, KATH has faithfully served the middle and northern belts of Ghana, particularly those of us in the Akan forest regions. It has carried the healthcare burden of numerous regions and continues to do so despite immense pressure on its infrastructure, staff, and resources.

Apart from Komfo Anokye, there is no major referral facility within our catchment area capable of handling many critical and specialized medical cases. That is why, as a Health Minister who hails from Sefwi, many expected you to make the strengthening of healthcare infrastructure in this part of the country a major priority.

Komfo Anokye is strategically located at the heart of Ghana and receives patients from every direction. Anyone who spends just thirty minutes observing activity around the hospital’s emergency unit will witness ambulances arriving from the Eastern Region, Western North, Bono, Bono East, Ahafo, Western Region, the Assin, Twifo and Denkyira areas of the Central Region, and of course Ashanti Region itself.

The sight is both remarkable and heartbreaking. Patients often travel for several hours from these areas only to arrive at KATH and be told that there are no available beds.

This reality explains why traditional leaders from Sefwi strongly supported the Heal Komfo Anokye Project. During the fundraising campaign, Sefwi Wiawso Manhene, Katakyie Kwasi Bumangama II, donated GH¢300,000, while Sefwi Anhwiaso Manhene, Ogyeahohoo Yaw Gyebi II, contributed US$5,000. These respected chiefs supported the initiative because they understand the enormous impact KATH has had on the lives of their people and the indispensable role it continues to play.

It is therefore concerning that since your assumption of office as Minister for Health, the Heal Komfo Anokye Project appears to have stalled. Many Ghanaians continue to ask why such a crucial intervention, one that benefits millions of people across several regions, has not been sustained with the urgency it deserves.

Equally worrying is the apparent lack of progress on other key healthcare projects that could significantly ease the burden on Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital:

* The Ashanti Regional Hospital at Sewua remains uncompleted and underutilized.
* The KNUST Teaching Hospital has been left in a state far below its potential.
* The Komfo Anokye Maternity and Children’s Block remains at a standstill.
* The Obuasi Trauma Hospital has yet to fulfill the purpose for which it was established.
* The 500-bed Afari Military Hospital, strategically located on the Kumasi-Sefwi highway, remains largely inaccessible to the many civilians who could benefit from it. For many people from Sefwi, reaching Afari is easier than travelling into central Kumasi to access KATH.

These facilities are not only important to Ashanti Region; they are critical to the healthcare needs of the entire middle belt of Ghana. Their completion and full operation would provide relief for millions of people in Ashanti and surrounding regions.

[Simon @sackitey_]

Medicine is not the practice of following directives.Medicine is the practice of protecting patients.

A doctor's duty is not to a politician, a CEO, a minister, or a president. It is first and foremost to the patient.

[Dziedzorm Di Medici 🇬🇭🇨🇺 @geenaeus]

Our health sector is barely hanging by a thread. But I am very confident this man will collapse it completely.

[KojoSarpong @owuragame2012]

@dr_amanski @querqu @Koranchevsky For so long we’ve blamed health workers for the foolishness and incompetence of our politicians but no more.

[Dr. Amanski @dr_amanski]

@danie_moi_dee This!!!!

[Dr. Amanski @dr_amanski]

In the end the ‘Patient’ suffers, and that’s YOU, the Kwasia Foot soldier who’s writing nkwasiasem on Twitter. the people you’re defending will go to US or Europe for care, and you even Korle Bu koraa you can’t afford na UGMC, be there. Sia

[Dr. Amanski @dr_amanski]

@Arthurockgh 💯💯💯

[SALTPOND TIGERWOOD @Arthurockgh]

This is very untrue bossu, e issue isn't whether the Minister is a doctor or not. The issue is his approach. constant public reprimands, hardline responses and "I order you" style of leadership are exactly why we're here.

Healthcare no be some place where you just bark orders and expect problems to disappear. Structures have to exist before directives can work. If people think his actions show a gap in understanding how the ministry and the health system operate, then that criticism is justified.
Even ordinary citizens should be mad at that cos he has been shit with his approach

[Dr. Amanski @dr_amanski]

@querqu @Koranchevsky 🤣🤣

[Dr. Amanski @dr_amanski]

@dr_erica_dr It’s like they have ‘mean’ you paa oooo

[Dr. Amanski @dr_amanski]

@RealDrErnestt @CrazyPr0fessor @Amanski The leaders are punishing them, but ppl choose to believe it’s health workers who are doing so, Punishment started when your leaders said it’s okay to put critically ill patients on floors and chairs which drastically reduced their chances of survival and there was no pushback.

[Dr. Amanski @dr_amanski]

@AmponsahDixon Hhmmm

[Dr. Amanski @dr_amanski]

@skinnyrabbito @Didymus1234 🤣🤣

[Dr. Amanski @dr_amanski]

This antagonistic approach from the Health Minister towards health workers is really not advisable. They go to the Europe/US to receive healthcare, then mess the system up for the average Ghanaian. A time is coming even to find a Dr to antagonise will be impossible. Toaso wai

[elvis🇬🇭 @elvis_quajo]

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.

[Dr. Amanski @dr_amanski]

@kwabenaboatman @DrManful26 This is what I keep saying

[Dr. Sharyf @drsharyf]

BREAKING: Doctors at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) declare an indefinite strike effective today following Health Minister Kwabena Mintah Akandoh’s suspension of the hospital’s CEO.

[Dr. Amanski @dr_amanski]

Ever heard of @sickofacebook ?

[Muffy 🇬🇭🇨🇮 @muphysaunders]

Do we have pioneers of Medico Twitter🤔

[Dr. Amanski @dr_amanski]

@Amma_Adutwumwaa @KobenaLutterodt Facts !

[Dr. Sharyf @drsharyf]

Take care of your health. Your chances of surviving a medical emergency are getting slimmer by the day as our facilities are becoming increasingly overwhelmed.

[A. T. K ⚕️ @atkkay]

In all these, I hope young Drs are gathering data to make informed decisions

You can do so much more….don’t settle and be used as pawns ♟️ by people who don’t have 1/4 of your IQ

[Dr. Amanski @dr_amanski]

@drsharyf Bro… this morning I heat 🤣