Health delivery to patients at the Great Consolidated Diamond Ltd (GCDGL) Hospital at Akwatia in the Denkyembour District of the Eastern Region has seized since Monday, May 28, 2018, due to a cut in electricity supply to the hospital.
Apart from this, dead bodies at the hospital’s morgue have started going bad since Monday when the electricity was cut off.
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) disconnected power to the GCDGL Hospital due to indebtedness to the tune of thousands of Ghana cedis.
Nurses and doctors now rely on torch lights, lights on their mobile phones and candles to attend to patients who are on admissions during the night.
The hospital serves hundreds of patients from towns and cities such as Akim Oda, Akwatia, Boadua, Asamankese, Kade, Swedru, among others.
The situation, according to Prime News Ghana’s correspondent, Odiasempa Kwadwo Agyei, is having a toll on both in-patients and out- patients departments as work has come to a stand-still.
Prime News Ghana’s correspondent said the lives of patients, especially those on admission, are in jeopardy since doctors and nurses do not attend to them effectively.
When Prime News Ghana contacted the Manager of the Hospital, Immanuel Kofi Akye he said “ah but if my institution has a challenge, why should I have to explain myself to a media house. You know what; whoever called on you, whatever he has to say, let him tell you. Because I don’t see why I have to explain myself to a media house when I have a challenge with my institution. You know what; I am not in a position to comment on it nowâ€.
Listen to the Immanuel Kofi Akye's interview with Prime News Ghana
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