Health Ministry Bureaucracies frustrating support to hospitals – Sam George Listen to article
Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Samuel Nartey George, has attributed the current challenges at various hospitals to bureaucratic processes at the Ministry of Health.
Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show, Mr. George said these practices frustrate benevolent persons who try to support hospitals in dire need of medical equipment and supplies.
He recounted how officials at the Health Ministry attempted to cut deals with him on some medical supplies yet to be received into the country.
His revelation comes in the wake of the death of the son of an Assembly Member in his constituency.
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He started by saying: “I am angry. I am sad. I am pissed. Yesterday evening around 8 pm, I got a call and messages from an Assemblyman in my Constituency whilst I was at church that his 12-year-old son had been rushed to the Battor Catholic hospital in the morning.” He revealed how the little boy had been referred to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital but the facility declined to accept him citing the usual no bed as an excuse. “The situation had been deteriorating and a decision was made early afternoon to transfer the child to Accra. Calls were made to Korle Bu Teaching Hospital but they refused to accept the child that there was no bed. Calls were made to 37 Military Hospital and they agreed to take the child,” Sam George continued.