The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital Board has interdicted the Director of Pharmacy and nine other employees at the Pharmacy Department of the hospital 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.”
[contextly_sidebar id=”YR7bQxi7Xtshb3WVisevg3jelQWE9F4E”]It further noted that the Board is setting up a committee to conduct an administrative enquiry to determine the culpability of individuals with respect to the administrative and system failures.
“As a state institution, the Board will refer to the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) for further investigation to support the hospital effect arrests where criminality is confirmed and recover the unaccounted for revenue,”it indicated.
The Board further assured stakeholders of the hospital that concrete steps are being taken to “eliminate recurrences of incidents such as these with the consequent loss of significant amounts of revenue to the hospital”
This is not the first time such an incident has happened at the hospital.
In 2014, there were media reports that the board and management of the hospital had allegdly spent more than one million Ghana cedis on luxury vehicles.
Commenting on these reports, the hospital’s board revealed that it has subsequently “inherited an endemic situation where such occurences are rife.”
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By: Marian Efe Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana