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Some doctors at the Surgery Department of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) are suspending all emergency services from Monday, citing their inability to offer the best of care to patients.The young specialists and residents in surgery are unhappy with a decision by hospital authorities not to retain any of the over 70 newly trained housemen.Spokesperson, Dr. Paa Kwasi Baidoo says the surgical wards are already choked and for him, it is inhuman to admit more patients under the current circumstances.He tells Luv Fm the 12-member team cannot cope with the increasing emergency cases, especially when the KATH is losing housemen to other hospitals.“This is not the first time; last year the same thing happened, so you find that two people are attending to so many patients and now [at] our Accident and Emergency Centre, we receive patients from all the regions. So we are saying that in order to render the best of care, we will suspend emergency services because of our numbers”, stated Dr. Baidoo.He says it takes over six hours for patients to receive care after initial medical attention from the emergency physician.Dr. Baidoo indicated physicians at the hospital have also stopped attending to emergency situations since last Tuesday.He says the doctors will resume the emergency services when there is enough staff to take care of the emergencies.
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