Cash-strapped Korle Bu Teaching Hospital is struggling to run its Intensive Care Units (ICU), exposing surgery patients needing assisted recovery to danger.

The hospital, which is incidentally the country's biggest referral health facility, currently has only 16 ICUs, a number that is too small for the huge number of patients that need specialised intensive care equipment to survive.

Korle Bu Medical Director, Dr Samuel Asiamah and Head of Department at the University of Ghana School of Medicine and Dentistry and consultant Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist, Prof Ernest Aniteye, were guests on PM Express Wednesday to recount the dire situation at the hospital, particularly at the ICU.

They revealed a special Trust Fund has been set up to mobilise money to run the ICUs and to also defray ballooning debts incurred as a result of a lack of government subvention and logistical support.

The Trust Fund is managed by Fidelity Bank.

PM Express, a news analysis programme, airs every week day at 9pm on the JOY NEWS channel on MULTI TV and hosted regularly by Nana Ansah Kwao IV.

Watch last nights programme that analysed the crisis at the Korle Bu ICU in video below.