Patrick Boakye-Yiadom, deputy member of the Parliamentary Well being Committee and Member of Parliament for Obuasi East, was seen brandishing a cutlass and slicing some overgrown grass within the premises of the Afari Navy Hospital.
He made this uncommon transfer on Wednesday, June 10, throughout a go to to the ability by a parliamentary committee.
The go to was made as a part of the well being committee’s evaluation of the area’s well being infrastructure amid rising stress on the Komfo Anokye Instructing Hospital (KATH), significantly the accident and emergency division.
This highlights rising issues over the situation of the hospital, which is slated to play a key function in well being care supply within the Ashanti area and past, however isn’t but operational. The hospital is reportedly overgrown with weeds.
Chatting with journalists, Boakye-Yiadom expressed disappointment with the present state of affairs on the hospital, saying it was a tragic reflection of the nation’s well being priorities.
He stated he believed the weeding drill was a symbolic gesture geared toward drawing consideration to the state of affairs on the hospital, which required pressing intervention.
“Immediately I’m very unhappy and sorry to see this stunning constructing coated in weeds and naturally snakes. … That is why you noticed me weeding. This should not proceed. This spectacle should cease,” he stated.
He referred to as on the federal government to make sure the speedy commissioning of the Afari Navy Hospital and different accomplished well being amenities to enhance entry to well being care and cut back stress on KATH for the good thing about the individuals of the Ashanti Area and its surrounding basins.
In keeping with the Obuasi East Member of Parliament, the state of affairs at Afari Navy Hospital highlights wider challenges in Ghana’s well being system, significantly the rising stress on KATH.
He described the state of affairs at KATH as “the tip of the iceberg” and famous that the ability’s accident and emergency division was severely overcrowded.
“KATH is overloaded. The accident and emergency unit is filled with sufferers. While you go to the place, the variety of sufferers mendacity on the ground exceeds the variety of sufferers mendacity within the beds. This example can not proceed,” he stated.
Mr. Boakye Yiadom stated the Afari Navy Hospital was geared toward relieving stress on the Komfo Anokye Instructing Hospital and serving the inhabitants of Northern Ashanti and neighboring areas, warning that leaving the hospital unused would undermine its objective and pressure present well being amenities.
The lawmaker additionally lamented the non-operational standing of the finished Agenda 111 hospitals at Kokoben in Oforikrom constituency and Tolede in Atwima-Kwanwoma space, saying these hospitals are fashionable 100-bed amenities with emergency models and different crucial departments.
“These are nice hospitals. What’s left is to rent nurses, medical doctors and different well being care staff to make the hospitals work. That is what we’re asking for,” he stated.
Mr. Boakye-Yiadom questioned why the ability was not operational when it was accomplished and operational, insisting that the individuals of the Ashanti area had the suitable to entry the medical companies the hospital was constructed to supply.
“If individuals within the Ashanti area noticed what Afari Hospital is like now, they might most likely cry as a result of this funding mustn’t go to waste,” he stated.
He referred to as on President John Dramani Mahama and Minister of Well being Kwabena Minta Akandoh to take speedy steps to get the hospital up and operating earlier than the state of affairs deteriorates additional.
