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The Board of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital is scheduled to meet officials of the Ministry of Health on how to solve the problem of break down equipment at the hospital.Nhyira Fm’s Ohemeng Tawiah’s under-cover investigations revealed that six people died last week alone as a result of the break down of life-saving equipment at the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital.The deceased were made up of three males and three females with one nursing mother of a one month old baby.Doctors at the unit were reluctant to admit patients in critical conditions for fear of the patients dying in their hands.Dialysis machines at the Intensive Care Unit have also broken down, crying for repairs or replacement.A 5-year maintenance contract signed between the sector ministry and Germany based Gertech has been a subject of discussion and in several instances it has been blamed for the break down of the equipment.The eleven-member board chaired by Dr. Louis Bartels Charles de Bordes has scheduled an emergency meeting for Monday at 10 o’clock GMT to discuss possible means of resolving the matter.Nhyira Fm sources say the board will send a delegation to meet officials of the Ministry of Health to discuss matters arising out of the 5-year Gertech maintenance contract.Officials of the Komfo Anokye Hospital have not been pleased with Gertech’s handling of the maintenance works.In October, last year, management set up a committee, chaired by Director of Nursing Services, Patience Yeboah-Ampong, to look into the issue.
Copies of the report, which depicted KATH management’s frustrations over Gertech, were sent to the Health Ministry, Parliamentary Select Committee among others.But the sector ministry for instance is yet to respond.
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