The management of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has reassured renal patients that the essential medical supplies currently stuck at the port will be cleared soon. This assurance comes after patients threatened to picket on Wednesday, August 21, due to the prolonged delay in accessing these vital consumables.
The shortage of these critical supplies has already led to the closure of the renal unit for three weeks, leaving patients without necessary treatment. In response, the hospital’s Public Relations Officer, Mustapha Salifu, addressed the issue during an interview on Eyewitness News on Monday, August 19. He emphasized that the hospital is working urgently to resolve the situation and restore services as soon as possible.
“We have apologized on several occasions for this challenge, and we continue to entreat them that they should exercise restraint and that we have gotten a commitment from the Ministry [of Health] that we will have this thing cleared,” Salifu stated. He added, “They have already endured for over two weeks now. They should let us work cooperatively as we usually do so that we can clear the container at the port and then resume normal operations.”
In the meantime, Baffuor Kojo Ahenkorah, spokesperson for the renal patients, expressed hope that the hospital will follow through on its promise to clear the supplies promptly. “We will take it in good faith, but we just hope that they will clear the containers as they have said so we will try and keep our fingers crossed and hope that something really comes out,” Ahenkorah said. “But at least by Wednesday, they should let us know exactly what is going on.”
Patients are anxiously awaiting the resolution of this issue so that they can resume their much-needed treatments.
Source:dailymailgh.com