Patients At Korle Bu Forced To Buy Plastic Chairs Or Sit On The Floor To Await Treatment

There are new revelations about Korle Bu.

The health sector in the country is in shambles. Furthermore, a lot of patients die even though they have easily treatable conditions.

Citi News’ made these reports from the hospital.

Conditions of service at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital

However, latest revelations are that patients at the nation’s premiere facility, the Korle Bu Teaching Hosptial, are suffering. Furthermore, they either sit in plastic chairs or even on the floor. This is as they wait to receive care due to overflow at the hospital.

Also, the Ministry of Health issued a directive preventing hospitals from turning away patients. This is even if there are no beds.

Therefore, this creates a situation where the hospitals receive more patients than their capacity. This leads to a new problem.

At the Surgical Medical Emergency Unit of Korle Bu, patients are being forced to purchase plastic chairs to get somewhere to sit or resort to sitting on the floor.

“Patients are receiving treatment on plastic chairs which they were made to buy because there were no vacant beds or chairs available.”