Interdicted Director of Pharmacy of the Korlebu Teaching Hospital, Elizabeth Bruce has called on staff of the pharmacy department not to feel demoralized with findings of a forensic report conducted into the department’s operations.
[contextly_sidebar id=”WeitcZhDM7yVMUgsnoGHIoHM1Tv5pGDs”]The audit, commissioned by former Health Minister, Sherry Ayitey, followed several accusations of financial malfeasance at the hospital’s pharmacy department.
Madam Bruce and nine others were subsequently interdicted, for misappropriating approximately GHC946,574.29 through bad procurement processes.
A statement issued by the management of Korle Bu indicated that “a forensic audit into the operations of the Hospital’s Pharmacy identified significant administrative and control system failures in the operations of the Korle Bu Teaching Pharmacy Department …as well as an amount of GHC946,574.29 of unaccounted for revenue over the audit period.”
But Madam Bruce is optimistic subsequent investigations by the Bureau of National Investigations will exonerate her.
She told Citi News, “I don’t want to talk too much, I just want the investigative body to be set up and then we will look at what evidence is there to support who is culpable. And that is what we are waiting for.”
She further called on the hospital’s staff not to allow the findings to affect their work delivery in any way.
”They should not be put down by this. My staff are down they have worked so hard to support the hospital. If they are down, they cannot give their best to the public”, she said, assuring the public that “we will continue to serve the patient, despite the suffering we are suffering,” she added.
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By: Eugenia Tenkorang/citifmonline.com/Ghana