Mamobi Polyclinic Rotting Away

By Emelda Adjei &Lucy Ofosu (GIJ Interns)

The Mamobi Polyclinic in the Greater Accra Region is fast becoming an unpleasant site not befitting the status of a health institution where people go to seek treatment for their illness.

A visit to the clinic after numerous phone calls about the unhygienic environmental conditions revealed how badly patients’ folders have been exposed as they were left in the open on shelves where they could easily get missing.

Those that were not on the shelves were lying on the floor, an easy target for anybody wanting to know what sickness sent the other. When asked why that was so, The Herald was told by an official that there was no enough room to safely keep the folders.

Instead of drying lines, washed clothes were dried on the heaped stones at the premises of the clinic thus exposed to dirt and all kinds of gems.

The washroom is an incredible site to behold. It is so unkempt, indeed an easily place where one could contract another sickness.

Though they have male and female washrooms, both sexes share the male washroom with the excuse that work was being done in the female washroom.

The Herald also observed that the Mamobi Polyclinic does not have good wards. It was also realized that most of their louver blades were either broken or removed.

Some of the wards also have their window nets torn, thereby giving malaria-spreading mosquitoes and other insects a field day.

Cups and other containers were lying idle on the floor without any worker paid by the taxpayer wanting to pick them up.

Some patients The Herald spoke to were appalled about the kind of medical attention given them. According to one patient, they receive very poor attention as compared to other clinics or hospitals.

There were complaints also about the Dental Department, where the right equipment were absent.

Some of these patients suggested that since the clinic was under the canopy of government, they would want to see the Ministry of Health providing some social amenities to the facility to enable its give quality health instead being a place where they rather go and contract diseases.

The Mamobi Polyclinic serves the people of Mamobi, Nima, Alajo, Accra New Town, Kokomlemle, Kotobabi, Pig Farm and other places within the Accra Metropolis.