Patients who visit the Kaneshie Polyclinic cannot be assured of quality health care due to the deteriorating state of medical facilities at the clinic.
The clinic which is Ghana’s oldest Polyclinic is yet to see any form of renovation or expansion, a situation which has brought pressure on existing facilities at the hospital.
[contextly_sidebar id=”BbCHm8sfJvgFXJGg6NFcFLssw8T7lI8M”]Doctors at the facility are left with no option than to leave their Cholera patients on benches in a makeshift structure as they receive treatment from nurses.
Doors at the recovery ward of the clinic have deteriorated, forcing patients on admission to suffer mosquito bites at night.
Speaking to Citi News on the situation, the Director of the Kaneshie Hospital, disclosed that the facility had run out of funds for its new project and this was making their work difficult.
“We receive 400-500 cases a day for 48 hours but because of the constraints we are not able to admit them – we can only take 13 cases on admission daily. It is making our work difficult” – the director of the Kaneshie Hospital, Dr. Pattrick Amo-Mensah told citifmonline.com
He further warned that, the conditions at the facility could deteriorate further if the Ghana Health Service do not come to their rescue and help them finalise work on their ultra-modern complex which has been abandoned since 2004.
“The funds got finished for whatever reason we don’t know. We cannot take it up because it is a contract between the ministry of health and the contractor. We do not want to get involved any judgement debt issue,” he said.
According to him, “it is a mighty building and if all these structures that we are seeing over here is completed we have rooms for consulting, theatres – we could have an isolated unit but that is not the case.
The 40 – bed clinic was built in 1966 under the Kwame Nkrumah regime and serves residents from Mamprobi, Circle and Tesano who cannot afford health care in this environ.
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By: Benjamin Epton Owusu/citifmonline.com/Ghana