Outpatients at Korle Bu Teaching hospital left stranded following strike by Allied Health Professionals

Outpatients have been left stranded at the central, scan and ENT departments of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital due to the withdrawal of OPD treatment by the allied health professionals.

Patients who spoke with our Labour affairs correspondent said they may have to seek services elsewhere.

One of the patients, Rossah Arthur Baidoo told 3news that she is disappointed with the strike.

She explained that authorities of the Hospital should not subject patients to such unfair treatment.

“We came to do the lab and they said they are on strike, they said I should go out and do it. I am very disappointed, because I don’t see the reason why a big hospital like this should go on strike. So, they need to do something about that”.

Steward Adom who also went to the central lab, expressed surprise at the strike action.

He explained that other patients will be affected if Management of the Hospital does not resolve the matter.

“It is a surprise to me, so I am going. I will come back another time,” he said.

The allied health professionals are demanding that the Management and Board of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital appoints a director to manage their affairs.

For more than two decades, they have been under the supervision of medical doctors which they claim has not been in their interest.

Vice President of the Allied Health professionals at KBTH, Dr Edward Ayem told 3news that members will not back down from the strike.

“So far, they have been playing politics as usual. We received a letter, they wrote a petition to the Fair Wages to intervene and what we can do now you are asking somebody else to come in to do what? They should just create the directorate. What is difficult about creating a directorate to get people who are working properly managed, so that we can better administer care to our patients?”

“If by Monday they do not respond to us, we are going off totally and we will press this demand until the advert is placed for the allied health director,” he stated.

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