{"id":294094,"date":"2017-02-13T18:47:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T18:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=294094"},"modified":"2017-02-13T18:47:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T18:47:40","slug":"group-wants-tamale-teaching-hospital-ceo-sacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/02\/group-wants-tamale-teaching-hospital-ceo-sacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Group wants Tamale Teaching Hospital CEO sacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486988419240_13949\" class=\"yiv9369822364MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486988419240_13948\">A group affiliated to the New Patriotic Party (NPP), known as the Northern Young Patriots, has demanded the immediate dismissal of the Tamale Teaching Hospital Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Prosper Akambong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9369822364MsoNormal\">\u00a0The group\u2019s Chairman, Bashiru Baba at a news conference in Tamale, accused Dr. Akambong of superintending over corruption, nepotism and abuse of human rights of staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9369822364MsoNormal\">\u00a0He also claimed that Dr. Prosper Akambong has reduced the major referral health facility to a death trap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9369822364MsoNormal\">\u00a0He cited the hospital\u2019s Deputy Director of Human Resource, Misbaw Mohammed and Acting Director of Pharmacy, Hamid Abdulai, as Dr. Akambong\u2019s surrogates who should be relieved of their positions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9369822364MsoNormal\">\u00a0\u201cThe CEO, Dr. Prosper Akambong, Misbaw Mohammed and Hamid Abdulai notoriously known as the \u201cTrinity\u201d, are virtually running the day to day activities of the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9369822364MsoNormal\">\u00a0Bashiru Baba served notice of the group\u2019s intention to demonstrate against the TTH CEO if the appointing authority does not dismiss him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9369822364MsoNormal\">\u201cWe are giving the CEO and his two colleagues a- week&#8217;s ultimatum to step down, failure to do so, we will advise ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486988419240_13951\" class=\"yiv9369822364MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486988419240_13950\">He pinpointed the freezing of staff salaries, lack of essential medicines and consumables, partisan recruitment of some paramedical staff and award of contracts to Haskay Company Limited owned by the Acting Director of Pharmacy, Hamid Abdulai, as some of the gross misconduct of the hospital authority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9369822364MsoNormal\">He revealed that, \u201cPatients are asked to purchase very basic items such as hand gloves, syringes and all items needed for their care, which are supposed to be catered for by the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9369822364MsoNormal\">\u201cAnother interesting occurrence is the maltreatment of persons by the Trinity. It is said that appointment to the hospital has taken a partisan dimension. Qualified persons perceived to be coming from a certain political party are denied appointment. Temporal staff also perceived to be members of that same political lineage are denied permanent status\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9369822364MsoNormal\">Bashiru Baba called for forensic audit of the hospital\u2019s accounts and the establishment of a bipartisan committee, to investigate the allegations leveled against the CEO and his surrogates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9369822364MsoNormal\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9369822364MsoNormal\">By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/ Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group affiliated to the New Patriotic Party (NPP), known as the Northern Young Patriots, has demanded the immediate dismissal of the Tamale Teaching Hospital Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Prosper Akambong. \u00a0The group\u2019s Chairman, Bashiru Baba at a news conference in Tamale, accused Dr. Akambong of superintending over corruption, nepotism and abuse of human rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,10,11],"tags":[3511,4020,3,4021,889],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Group wants Tamale Teaching Hospital CEO sacked - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. 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