The lack of water supply at the Salaga Government Hospital has compelled doctors and nurses to carry water in buckets to various units of the hospital to attend to patients.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”2aPmZy3RmTJc50SCXkfy5Xlu9MDkRZTz”]The Ghana News Agency (GNA), witnessed this situation when it visited the hospital at Salaga in the East Gonja District of the Northern Region.<\/p>\n
It also learnt that hospital authorities buy sachet water for surgical operations.<\/p>\n
Mr William Abittor, Matron of the Salaga Government Hospital, who spoke to GNA, said for 15 years now, water has not flowed through the taps of the hospital, compelling management to buy water from tanker service providers.<\/p>\n
Mr Abittor said the water provided by the tanker service, comes from the Kpembe Dam, which is badly polluted as people dam as dumping grounds for refuse while, animals also drunk directly from it.<\/p>\n
He said the hospital has one polytank, which is not connected to all of its (hospital) units, thus forcing staff at other units to carry water in buckets or use sachet water for their operations.<\/p>\n
Mr Abittor said, \u201cThis no water problem\u201d also extended to the quarters of hospital staff making them not to wash their attires and other clothes for months and sometimes making them go to work without bathing to attend to patients.<\/p>\n
He said this situation had exposed the health workers to danger, compelling them to sometimes absent themselves from work, thus affecting the quality of healthcare delivery at the hospital.<\/p>\n
Mr Abittor, therefore, appealed to the authorities to supply the hospital with a water tanker or ensure that the taps \u00a0at the hospital work to help address its water needs.<\/p>\n
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Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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