{"id":55071,"date":"2014-10-10T06:03:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T06:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=55071"},"modified":"2014-10-10T06:04:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T06:04:06","slug":"bed-bugs-invade-goaso-govt-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/10\/bed-bugs-invade-goaso-govt-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Bed bugs invade Goaso Gov’t Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"
Patients on admission at the Goaso Government Hospital in the Brong Ahafo Region have expressed frustrations about the invasion of their beds by bed bugs, claiming that it is affecting their\u00a0treatment.<\/p>\n
The children, male and female wards as well as the emergency unit are the worst affected.<\/p>\n
A nursing mother who was admitted at the facility in an interview, with citifmonline.com<\/strong> said the babies are developing skin rashes and other infections due to the invasion of the bugs.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”BDVxsj2UozLox6RJGm3ruURe1d0dHwGY”]Some staff at the hospital \u00a0said the presence of the bugs is also affecting health delivery \u00a0at the out patient department (OPD).<\/p>\n They also decried the insanitary conditions at the facility.<\/p>\n The Administrator of the Hospital Mr. Sampson Namiak who confirmed the bugs\u2019 invasion said plans are underway to fumigate the hospital soon.<\/p>\n “So hopefully we will be able to deal with this situation as soon as possible. It is not the best for this to happen in a hospital. The patients are not comfortable and this is not good,” he said.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Credit: Atiewin Amale Mohammed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Patients on admission at the Goaso Government Hospital in the Brong Ahafo Region have expressed frustrations about the invasion of their beds by bed bugs, claiming that it is affecting their\u00a0treatment. The children, male and female wards as well as the emergency unit are the worst affected. A nursing mother who was admitted at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":55077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[15,43,38],"yoast_head":"\n