{"id":254230,"date":"2016-10-03T06:04:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T06:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=254230"},"modified":"2016-10-03T06:04:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T06:04:56","slug":"accra-psychiatric-hospital-under-pressure-to-re-open-opd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=254230","title":{"rendered":"Accra Psychiatric hospital under pressure to re-open OPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government is mounting pressure on the Accra Psychiatric Hospital to re-open its Outpatient department after it was closed last week.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital suspended services at the department due to <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/28\/accra-psychiatric-hospital-shuts-down-opd-audio\/\"><strong>financial constraints<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The situation forced the hospital\u2019s suppliers of the facility to withdraw their services over the unpaid debts.<\/p>\n<p>Others suppliers also dragged the mental facility to court to demand payment.<\/p>\n<p>However sources within the hospital have told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> that the government has offered to give them fifteen thousand cedis out of the over 3.6 million cedis owed them.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0amount according to hospital authorities, is woefully inadequate to run the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile management of the hospital is expected to meet today [Monday], to decide on their next line of action.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We don\u2019t even have A-4 sheets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The dire situation of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital has <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/29\/we-dont-even-have-a-4-sheets-accra-psychiatric-hospital-laments\/\"><strong>deteriorated<\/strong><\/a><\/span> to the point where the facility does not even have access to basic items such as A-4 sheets to take down minor but critical information.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Hospital\u2019s Public Relations Unit, Edwina Ankomah, lamented on <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong> that, the hospital is in dire need of basic things like \u201cgloves, disinfectants, and\u00a0stationary \u00a0like paper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust a plain sheet \u2013 because someone will walk in and would want a medical report for school or something and we don\u2019t have even an A-4 sheet,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Zoe Abu Baido\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government is mounting pressure on the Accra Psychiatric Hospital to re-open its Outpatient department after it was closed last week. The hospital suspended services at the department due to financial constraints. The situation forced the hospital\u2019s suppliers of the facility to withdraw their services over the unpaid debts. Others suppliers also dragged the mental facility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":253071,"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":[6381,3],"class_list":["post-254230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-accra-psychiatric-hospital","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254230","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/253071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}