Some quasi-government hospitals in the country are under extreme pressure from the increasing number of patients who throng the facilities to seek care due to the doctors’ strike.
Nurses at the Police Hospital say the strike has put a lot of pressure on them as they now have to treat a higher number of patients.
[contextly_sidebar id=”3oAy1VzL1ULhguD39mdPtvqpoJVmZctz”]Some pregnant women admitted to the maternity ward of the hospital lie on mattresses on the floor because of the lack of space.
According to the nurses at the hospital, the wards are full and tents have been set up to temporarily for patients but there is still a shortage of beds.
The nurses at the Police Hospital also told Citi News’ Farida Shaibu that the tents were not conducive for health care.
“There are vacancies in the wards so I can’t keep any patients here. In fact, this place is not conducive”, one of the nurses at post in the tents told Citi News.
The Legon Hospital and the Tema Port Hospital are however not experiencing the high patient numbers as the Police Hospital is. The Legon Hospital even has beds that are not occupied.
This has been attributed to the fact that the Legon Hospital does not accept health insurance cards.
Tema Port Hospital
Citi News’ Elvis Washington, in his visit to the Tema Port Hospital, observed that there was no pressure on the facility.
“Mrs. Naana Quayeson, who told me that there is no pressure on the facility. They are having everything as though there was no strike and their doctors are not on strike,” Elvis Washington reported.
Washington also observed that the Out Patients Departments at the Tema Port Hospital are not under as much pressure at the time he visited the hospital.
Public sector doctors declared a nationwide strike on July 30 to demand their conditions of service.
To ensure continual health care government published the names of some hospitals e operating during the strike.
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Jeffrey Owuraku Sarpong/citifmonline.com/Ghana