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“Now that I have come to understand that Abu does not even understand the issue, I will go ahead, like I have said already, and apologize for how I put this whole thing out. Listening to him, he does not even understand.\u00a0 People have lied to him.”<\/p>\n
“…If he was being honest on radio, and I have the impression that he was being honest, and that is all that they told him, then they have deceived him,” A-Plus said.<\/p>\n
Background<\/strong><\/p>\n The onsite banking services at Korle Bu were needed to deal with the \u201cchronic revenue leakages bedeviling the Hospital\u201d which a number of banks had been unable to solve since 2008, a statement from the hospital explained.<\/p>\n Government directed that all public institutions should cede the collection of their revenue to selected banks.<\/p>\n In 2015, six banks were shortlisted to undergo a competitive selection process where Stanbic Bank emerged first and UniBank was fourth, the statement recounted, and \u201ca decision was taken to select Stanbic Bank that was first and UniBank that was 4th to partition the collection of revenue in the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n But when the hospital submitted the names of the two banks to the Controller and Accountant General\u2019s Department for approval, issues were raised about weaknesses in UniBank\u2019s operations in two other hospitals.<\/p>\n The issues had to do with \u201creconciliation challenges, delays, non-provision of real-time access to relevant stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn spite of the advice of the Controller and Accountant General\u2019s Department, an MoU was signed, appointing UniBank to simultaneously collect revenue in the Hospital with Stanbic Bank with the provision that any party can terminate the MoU giving 90-days notice of termination.\u201d<\/p>\n As the two banks started the onsite banking services, the leakages persisted and the hospital\u2019s management decided to search for an End-to-End Hospital Revenue Collection Software to integrate and network its operations.<\/p>\n Stanbic Bank and UniBank were both requested to submit proposals for an End-to-End Hospital Revenue Collection Software in 2015.<\/p>\n Stanbic Bank successfully presented an efficient software, while UniBank failed to turn up during the two presentation sessions thus the hospital \u201cawarded a contract to Stanbic Bank to pilot the new software in the entire hospital which is valued at USD240,000.\u201d<\/p>\n The software if implemented is expected to simultaneously reduce revenue leakages and increase revenue.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Stanbic Bank approved End-to-End Hospital Revenue Collection Software was obviously not compatible with the UniBank\u2019s software. Management, therefore, decided to discontinue the MoU with UniBank in order to enable Stanbic Bank deploy the new software throughout the entire Hospital \u2013 covering areas where Stanbic and UniBank were collecting revenue. In view of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Korle Bu and the banks for the onsite banking services, in which either party can terminate the contract by giving a 90-day notice, a Management decision, a notice of termination was given to UniBank on 12th July 2017,\u201d the statement explained.<\/p>\n But this was followed by the hospital rescinding the decision for reasons not disclosed in the statement.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kwame Asare Obeng, aka A-Plus, believes the Presidential staffers whom he accused of corruption, Francis Asenso-Boakye and Abu Jinapor, were misled and acted on deception when they intervened in the termination of\u00a0UniBank’s contract to provide onsite banking services at the\u00a0Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. He has thus rendered another apology to them for the manner in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[94,147,3,99],"yoast_head":"\n