Authorities at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) are not accepting blame for the suspension of emergency services by some doctors of the hospital.The directorates of General Surgery, Trauma and Internal Medicine are critically hit in the cut back of services by the young specialists and residents in surgery. Only emergency physicians are attending to cases.The doctors have stopped receiving new patients in need of emergency services from Monday, blaming hospital authorities for not retaining any of the over 70 newly trained housemen.Patients are already feeling the brunt of the action. An ambulance from the Manhyia District Hospital which arrived at the hospital’s Accident and Emergency Centre was turned away, as relatives of the referred gasped for attention.Public Relations Officer at KATH, Kwame Frimpong, acknowledged is a deficit of 45 house officers at the hospital.He however says KATH is not in the position to retain house officers to help address the current deficit of medical officers.The situation has been attributed to a new policy of the Medical and Dental Council and the Ministry of Health to redeploy all second-year house officers to the districts.According to Mr. Frimpong, petitions for the Ministry and the Council to reconsider the decision has not been heeded to, hence the pressure on the facility.“We need doctors to deliver services and that is why we said we need additional allocation of house officers and even doctors who have finished their four rotations. If we get them definitely the disciplines who have withdrawn or cut back their services to the Accident and Emergency Centre will resume full operations”, he stated.