{"id":223092,"date":"2016-06-17T06:20:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T06:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=223092"},"modified":"2016-06-17T06:20:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T06:20:47","slug":"admissions-suspended-korle-bu-cant-admit-any-more-at-surgical-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=223092","title":{"rendered":"Admissions Suspended: Korle-Bu can&#8217;t admit any more at Surgical Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) has suspended admissions at its surgical emergency unit.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a notice issued by the Medical Directorate and posted at the entrance of the unit two days ago.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;EhRpRUxw6V4tIztgnXu4Ck139YrayDO1&#8243;]Authorities at the unit explained that they had to put admissions on hold because the unit was full beyond its capacity.<\/p>\n<p>They further indicated that they did not want to compromise on health care delivery hence their decision.<\/p>\n<p>The notice however failed to indicate an alternative unit where referrals from the surgical\/ medical emergency unit should be directed to.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that barring any hitches the unit will resume full operations today[Friday] since the notice indicated that it will be closed for only 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Kk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-223102\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Kk.jpg\" alt=\"Kk\" width=\"521\" height=\"694\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Korle Bu closes down 3 surgical clinics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In February, the hospital similarly announced the closure of <a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/02\/06\/korle-bu-closes-down-3-surgical-clinics\/\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>three surgical clinics.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The closure was to allow ongoing\u00a0works to be completed in some of the theatre and recovery wards in the Department of Surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The three clinics were General Surgery, Neurosurgery and Urology.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Pearl Akanya Ofori\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) has suspended admissions at its surgical emergency unit. This was contained in a notice issued by the Medical Directorate and posted at the entrance of the unit two days ago. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;EhRpRUxw6V4tIztgnXu4Ck139YrayDO1&#8243;]Authorities at the unit explained that they had to put admissions on hold because the unit was full beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}