- Nana Addo Akuffo...................
- HEALTH
We are in a state of crisis when the health sector of our country is in permanent uproar, and health workers lose confidence in the word of officials. We are in a state of crisis when our health facilities are short of trained personnel and our trained and qualified doctors and nurses are forced to sit at home for months, and, sometimes for years, without being employed, because the government has run our economy into the ground, and cannot pay their wages and salaries
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The latest case which brings this sad reality into focus was the gory Kintampo accident last week, which claimed over 60 lives. According to the Medical Superintendent of the Kintampo Government Hospital, where all the victims of the accident were sent, Dr. Bismark Owusu Ofosu, who spoke to the BBC’s Sammy Darko, said some victims of the accident who were brought in alive died because the Hospital lacked some vital logistics and medicine. “There is no supply of oxygen. Even Common Emergency Drugs are not available…”, Dr. Owusu Ofosu said, while addressing the media on Thursday. Also, the Acting Administrator of the Ambulance Service in the Brong Ahafo Region, Samuel Karikari, confirmed to Citi News that at the time of the accident, the only Ambulance in Kintampo was out of commission.
The story of the School of Hygiene is worth mentioning here. For four years, young people have graduated from this all important public health institution. Virtually all of them are sitting at home and have not been able to offer the critical services for which they have been trained.
- See more at: http://citifmonline.com/2016/02/29/full-text-nana-addos-real-state-of-the-nation-address/#sthash.ODAvNoXg.dpuf
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