Eighty-eight workers of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital have not been able to produce appointment letters to show that they were recruited by the hospital. It has been established that 11 others who have appointment letters do not have their names on the master-list of the hospital, although they are being paid. It has also been established that some workers have been drawing salaries on titles other than what they were employed with. For instance, although some workers were engaged as orderlies, they have been drawing the salaries of accounts assistants. The Human Resource Manager of the hospital, Mr Anthony Apedzi, said this when he briefed the Daily Graphic at the end of a two-week validation of staff list at the hospital. The validation of the staff list became necessary following the arrest of an employee of the hospital, Kwame Adu Gyamfi Frimpong, for allegedly “employing” four “ghost” persons on the government payroll under fraudulent circumstances. The suspect, who was officially employed at the hospital in January this year, was said to have managed to get paid since 2004 under different names with two separate bank accounts. Under the exercise, unit heads at the hospital collected the appointment letters and identity cards of all workers of the hospital who are paid from its Internally Generated Fund (IGF). The anomalies were detected after the Human Resource Unit, together with audit staff, verified and authenticated the documents submitted to the unit by the unit heads. Mr Apedzi said the team of verifiers would now move from department to department to establish the real identities of the workers. He stated that the team would also establish whether the workers were really at post or not. According to Mr Apedzi, the unit would also investigate the anomalies. He said the team also established cases of “cut and paste of names” on signed appointment letters. Mr Apedzi said after the headcount at the various departments, the unit would sustain the exercise by mounting a quarterly validation of staff lists to check any recurrence. As to whether the hospital did not have an establishment list, Mr Apedzi said the hospital had one. He, however, explained that the establishment list was based on the various professional groups, such as doctors and nurses. He noted that the hospital was not meeting its staff requirements and said that could also account for the problem of ghost workers. Source: Daily Graphic