Ghana's progress is slowed by an endless cycle of political point-scoring. TV and radio debates are filled with jabs, gotcha moments, and arguments about who performed worse in office. Meanwhile, the problems citizens face remain largely unchanged.
Chairman of the Ashanti Regional branch of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr. Hammond Abeiku, says members remain on strike, citing inconsistencies in a second statement from the Ministry of Health despite assurances from the Ashanti Regional Minister.
He says the Association is awaiting the outcome of a meeting between the hospital board and the Health Minister before taking a final decision, noting that only in-patients and critical cases are being attended to while OPD services remain suspended.
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Lots of paragraphs, but nothing to show that the President’s directive was accompanied by concrete measures to improve the hospital’s operational capacity and ensure that people seeking emergency care are not turned away.
You cannot impose an operating standard by fiat on an already strained healthcare facility, fail to provide the resources, personnel, and systems needed to meet that standard, and then expect miracles. Healthcare outcomes are shaped by capacity, not administrative fiat.
Ghanaian doctors move to better-resourced health systems and perform exceptionally well. That should tell us something. The problem is often not the competence or commitment of healthcare workers. Fix the systemic challenges, provide the necessary support, and stop treating individual healthcare workers as convenient scapegoats for broader institutional failures.
In 2011, a doctor challenged the UK Prime Minister David Cameron over hospital hygiene rules during a photo-op
Compare that with Ghana where professionals are expected to stay silent and accept punishment for exercising their judgment.
The difference is striking.
The situation at KATH reiterates why the "no bed" label is a terrible descriptor for the emergency care crisis. It masks a whole cascade of failures and allows a very narrow definition of "duty of care" that lets political leaders off the hook for the underlying systemic issues
Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.
One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??
The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.
Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!
The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Hon. Linda Ocloo has won the Best Regional Minister Award at the 6th Ghana Ministers of State Excellence Awards.
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