Outpatients at the central, scan, and ENT departments of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital have been left stranded because Allied Health Professionals have withdrawn OPD treatment.
Patients interviewed by our Labour Affairs correspondent expressed concerns about needing to seek services elsewhere.
One patient, Rossah Arthur Baidoo, shared with 3news her disappointment regarding 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 stated.
The Allied Health Professionals are demanding that the Management and Board of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital appoint 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 best 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.
