Renal Dialysis Unit: Management of Korle-Bu wants Parliament to speed up approval of new fees

Management of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) has called on Parliament to expedite actions on the approval of the new fees for the Renal Dialysis Unit of the facility to foster their operations.

According to them, the cost under recoveries has made the facility with indebted to the tune of GHC4 million which the Health Ministry is liaising with the KBTH to cancel out.

In a statement issued a day after the unit was reopened to outpatients, the Management indicated that the new fees, when approved is what can keep the unit in operation and wants Parliament to speed up with getting it sanctioned.

It has indicated that the unit was re-opened to outpatients after its engagement with the Ministry.

“Management of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) wishes to inform all stakeholders
and the general public that the Renal Dialysis Unit was re-opened to outpatients on
Monday, November 6, 2023.

“This was subsequent to engagement with the Minister of Health, Hon Kwaku Agyeman-Manu last week.

“The Ministry of Health is working closely with the management of KBTH to offset the
GHC 4million debt occasioned by the cost under recoveries.

“We call on Parliament to expedite action on the proposed new fees and charges to
enable us to recover cost and sustain the service,” a statement issued Tuesday, November 7, contained.

The management expressed gratitude to individuals and organisations that have supported the unit over the years, adding that “it is our hope that other stakeholders and benefactors will also come on board to
support in order to prevent a recurrence of the challenges that led to the suspension of
dialysis service to outpatients.”

Management of the facility has received backlash from the public after increasing the cost for renal dialysis by over 100 per cent without parliamentary approval.

The authorities rescinded the decision after the public outcry to seek approval from Parliament and subsequently shut the unit to outpatients, citing the high cost of recoveries occasioned by government’s suspension of subsidies as the reason for the increment.