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KATH faces imminent closure

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  • Kwame 11 years ago

    HMMMM! WHAT ON EARTH WOULD BE DONE WELL UNDER JOHN MAHAMA?

  • AFRICANS ARE APES 11 years ago

    How long has he been in office asshole! These are ripples of long churned problems.

    Dont blame it on the current Government. Can you guys be objective in your reasoning for once?

  • 3TW3 Y3D3 11 years ago

    It is only a stupid cow that rejoices at the prospect of being taken to a beautiful abattoir

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

    THIS ASANTENI WHO BECAME NEGLECTED HIS OWN IGNORANT VILLAGE TO AMASS WEALTH THROUGH PUBLIC LOOTING ALL BECOS HW WAS TO BE CALLED 'NANA' WHEREVER HE WENT. IGNOIRANCE IS TRULY PUNISHING ASANTES. NPP REALLY WRECKED GHANA BEYOND ...
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  • john comey 11 years ago

    his dog is sensible than rawlings.apes

  • OSEI TAWIAH 11 years ago

    "I AM GLAD I WAS NOT THERE" Oh Mahama, What a cacophony !!! A whole president acting like a coward in defeat. How can this man be a commander in chief?

  • SHAMO 11 years ago

    JUST MARK IT.., BY THE END OF 2016 GHANA WILL BEG FOR FOOD!... CLOSING A TEACHING HOSPITAL? THIS HAS NEVER HAPPEND IN GHANAs HISTORY AND IF NOT UNDER JOHN MAAMA AND ASIEDU NKETIA NDC WHO AGAIN? NO BRAINS TO RULE YET THEY WONT ...
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  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

    AND GHANA WILL BE FREE FROM THESE CRIMINALS.

  • Staff Sgt Amii Voka 11 years ago

    AND Asiedu Nketia wore a 'battalion smock' on the election day. What a fool. Who was he fighting?

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

    THOSE MONIES THE CROOK CHIEF USED TO BUY MANSIONS ABROAD COULD HAVE BEEN USED TO REFURBISH AND SUSTAIN KATH. AND BY THE WAY, WHERTE ARE ALL THOSE ASANTE THIEVES WHO BOAST OF BEING RICH. NO PHILANTHROPY ANYMORE? ASANTE MISGUID ...
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  • GHANAian 11 years ago

    I think if this KATH is congested. The solution is simple. BUILD NEW HOSPITALS.!!!
    I don't think the Government can say that there is not money to build at least 10 new Hospitals shared in the ten regionsd of Ghana.
    Its jus ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE 11 years ago

    ......THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD. OH!! THIS ODDITY KNOWN AS NDC. GHANAIANS HAVE UNLEASHED THE POWER OF HELL UPON THEMSELVES.

  • Selassie Dzokoto 11 years ago

    This is the time to prove your worth to the numerous supporters of the NDC in the Ashanti Kingdom. As much as it is the world bank of the NPP, NDC always enjoy massive support from that part of our nation. Do not fail them or ...
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  • 3TW3 Y3D3 11 years ago

    Your exceptional stupidity is deeply ingrained in your genes

  • Selassie Dzokoto 11 years ago

    I would have ignored your comment, but your name alone is a clear testimony of your empty headedness. You were cursed before conception and so shall it be till you find me in person and ask for forgiveness.

  • Nana Yaw 11 years ago

    The Manhyia Health clinic, Tafo and Tech Hospitals should be upgraded with modern equipments to take some of the pressure from KATH. Manhyia should have been turned into a hospital a long time ago to take care of the people ...
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  • OSEI TAWIAH 11 years ago

    Ghana has not seen anything yet. A man of vision is ignored and thieves take advantage. God can never be fooled, those who sabotaged and betrayed Nana Addo to support the people with evil mind will face the wrath of the almig ...
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  • The Critical Mind 11 years ago

    Well said, Osei

  • TONY 11 years ago

    MR. MAHAMMA AND P/NDCS, WHERE ARE THE MONIES FROM OIL, COCOA, GOLD, DIAMOND ETC?. GOD HELP US, I THINK WE NEED ANOHER BLOOD COUP TO WAKE US UP IN GHANA. THIS WAS THE TIME RAWLINGS SHOULD HAVE MADE A BLOODY COUP NOT THAT OF 19 ...
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  • The Critical Mind 11 years ago

    A while back, I advocated the assassination of these political cronies but a coup would even be better. The country is being mismanaged period, from the time of Atta Mills.

  • Pateku 11 years ago

    will make sense if you guys use a fraction of your "self" made money (yeah right)you keep telling us to improve KATH....knowing you guys this will never happen.You rather blame someone else.

  • OSEI TAWIAH 11 years ago

    Hyena is the word for Pataku or Pateku in English. You are afraid of water that's why you stink so much. Do you think KATH is Ashanti property? You have'nt seen anything yet. No inland port in Kumasi because of NDC hatred. Yo ...
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  • Affum 11 years ago

    You see now, thats why I always say the only sensible and most visionary leader Ghana had had was Obadwemba Osagyefo Dr. kwame Nkrumah, he built this Akonfo Anokye Hospital in Kumasi, but its unfortunate almost few Ashantis n ...
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  • SENDERO 11 years ago

    KATH wa splanned for in 1949. Read the Gold Coast Legislative Council reports of that year. It was commenced in 1951 and Nkrumah became Prime Minister in 1952

    Please stop changing the history of Ghana just to suit your own ...
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  • lei 11 years ago

    Ao! Ghana govt. where is our money. Instead of using it to develop/upgrade these facilities, govt. officials, MPs. etc. are squandering it to the detriment of society. God will judge.

  • Old Dirty Bastard 11 years ago

    The primitive Ashanti chief does not care for his primitive subjects.

  • shumeto 11 years ago

    No.

  • NOYA 11 years ago

    It goes without saying that Ghana will soon be in a situation similar to what we have in zimbabwe.We ration power now water and soon healthcare delivery.where do we go from here as a nation,and how can we sraighten this menac ...
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  • chichinga 11 years ago

    wayome govt. in action. if we don't learn to vote issues and continue to vote stupidly ghna will soon be like a gutter

  • Nii 11 years ago

    This are the real issues Ghanaians should be concern about.Instead of football,music ,Azonto,funerals and unending Politics.

  • The Critical Mind 11 years ago

    Thank you

  • Secret Operative 11 years ago

    There will be a successful coup + revolution against the PNDC/NDC "Terrorism in Ghana" and "Dictatorship Regime" of John Mahama Bin Dramani and his Terrorist Group PNDC/NDC in next weeks, very soon.

  • owusu boateng, NPP, Italy 11 years ago

    Lets my brothers and sisters in diaspora comes together to help save the hospital, since it is the intention of ndc government to destroy the people of ashanti by deny the region the needed health system and other infrastr ...
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  • maa tech 11 years ago

    It's unfortunates that npp supporters can write that ndc is neglecting Ashanti region. Since when did the congestion began? NPP ruled for eight years, Kuffour bought his hotel wawaa, built the flagstaff house, didn't he see k ...
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  • STATE OF AKANLAND 11 years ago

    Ghana is history. Ghana will fail to exist. Ghana was just a fake and failed experiment that started in 1957, useless 55 years of the experimental existance of a fake thing called Ghana.

    Fucking Togolese NDC Ewe, EWES, bet ...
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  • MAMA 11 years ago

    WHY CAN,T ALL REGIONS GET THEIR REFERAL HOSPITALS?WHY ARE THE TWO REFERAL HOSPITALS BE SITED IN SOUTHERN GHANA? WHY SHOULD A PATIENT TRAVEL 500 KM FROM NORTHERN, UPPER EAST, UPPER WEST TO KUMASI FOR TREATMENT? WHY SHOULD A PA ...
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  • ADAMA 11 years ago

    NDC FOOLISH LEADERSHIP IS SINKING GHANA VERY FAST.

  • Yaw Adu-Asare 11 years ago

    KATH needs expansion that is overdue and doable.

  • C.O.D 11 years ago

    I thought the so-called Clergy Association will go and "beg" the KATH authorities not to close the facility down whilst gov`t sits and do nothing.

  • ADAMA 11 years ago

    LEADERSHIP CRISIS IN GHANA.

  • PREZZO 11 years ago

    I FULLY SUPPORT THEM. IF THEY HAVE ANY ADVICE GIVE THEM TO THE NDC. THEY MUST CONFESS THAT EVERY THING HAS FAILED. I WILL BE HAPPY TO SEE NDC FAIL IN ALL. THAT IS WHY GHANA ARE OUT OF AFCON. WORSE TO FOLLOW. AMEN

  • Nana 11 years ago

    From when are Reporters in Ghana going to stop using BIG and NON REALISTIC phrases in their reports and use simple and "straight forward" English? Are we ever going to stop words we imported from our Military Rule that doesn' ...
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  • Ursula YaaYaa 11 years ago

    WHAT CONTRIBUTION IS YOUR KING GIVING TO KATH.? IT IS OK TO FLY TO SOUTH AFRICA AND SORT OUT YOUR HEALTH WHILE YOU LOUNGE IN YOUR COMFY HOME IN SANDTON.
    CAN HE NOT EVEN RENOVATE A ROYAL PAVILLION AND FLY IN ADDITIONAL SPEC ...
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  • NANA-BEE 11 years ago

    The King of Asante Kingdom doesn't run the government of Ghana. All public medical centers are run by the ministry of health of the government of Ghana. The King doesn't have any jurisdiction to develop KATH. These health car ...
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  • DOGO 11 years ago

    I'm trying to understand why they are even considering a close down. Don't they know that closing down will only compound the problem of healcare delivery in that part of Ghana? If the issue is funding, i think they should ra ...
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  • The Critical Mind 11 years ago

    We the people of Ghana should demand accountability of the government and stop calling them Honorable and His Exellency. These titles give them false security and allow them to think above others. You wrote a nice piece that ...
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  • DOGO 11 years ago

    Until we learn to be patriotic and to eschew tribalism, our development will continue to be stagnant if not derailed. I'm with you hundred percent on those useless titles we put on those useless bunch of people in our law hou ...
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  • Nyame Ekuma 11 years ago

    Nonsense. Close the hospital we shall use 'bentoa' and drink moringa and chew dandelion like goats. Nonsense.

    We shall also use hot water for massage and use balm of Gilead 'nkuto' to heal our wounds. Nonsense.

    Where i ...
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  • The Critical Mind 11 years ago

    Ghana is on the brink of collapse helped by the one party system, lack of accountability, mismanagement, tribalism, lack of strong leadership, bribery and corruption, cowardice of the people to hold its government accountable ...
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  • AKWELE 11 years ago

    The officials should use the "chinchinga" monies to expand and renovate the hospitals to accomodate the patients. This applies to all the major regional hospitals. Take into consideration the population is now about 25 mil. ...
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  • Olivia Harris 11 years ago

    what your saying is exactly true Ghana goverment dont no what their doing.they need to do something before the hospital close down.they dont want to do anything for people in Kumasi.they need to put good doctors at Manhyia h ...
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  • Yaw ofsu ansa newyork 02=08 02..5 11 years ago

    why are you sitting down for KATCH to get closure at the garden city of kumasi .SIMPLEY because all ashanti people voted for NPP goverment that isthe reason why this kusaase guy istrying tobring the ashantis down.

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE 11 years ago

    AUTHOR: TONY

    P/NDCs HAVE LIED FROM AFRC TIME TO PRESENT DAY NDC GOVERNMENT. GHANA HAS WASTED OVER 30 YEARS OF J.J. RAWLINGS REIGN OF TERROR. NPP RULED FOR JUST 8 YEARS WITH DECENCY, HONESTY, FREEDOM OF SPEECH, RULE OF LAW ...
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  • NANA-BEE 11 years ago

    All the regional capitals need modern hospitals to care for the fast growing population. It's really wrong everything in Ghana is centered in Accra. If somebody needs a critical care in Tamale, he has to travel to Accra. That ...
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  • BOLD 11 years ago

    Why then do you keep on voting for the same government?

  • PATAPAA 11 years ago

    THE ASANTEHENE ONLY KNOWS HOW TO CHOP MONEY AND RIDE IN BIG CARS AND BUILD HOUSES. HE CAN FINANCE THE UPGRADE OF HIS BACKYARD MANHYIA HOSPITAL. LET'S SEE IF IS WISE ENOUGH. 'WISDOM IS KNOWING WHAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT IN LIFE' ...
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  • jamilah munkayilar 11 years ago

    if kath close down were would pp go it need funding form the govment or the pp of the place will suffer the con come on prez it time to fix the probelm

  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    You should ask Kufuor the thief these quastions

  • lariba 11 years ago

    Is it up for sale? A billionair willing to buy this medical center and turn it to a free medical center. Let us know please

  • Sankofa 11 years ago

    Ask J A Kufuor why he did not build more clinics and hospitals but squandered our money on the unnecessary Jubilee complex and Ghana@50?

    Kufuor and his cronies have a lot to answer for.

    We must never again allow a priv ...
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  • BOLD 11 years ago

    Sankofa, the same mistake is being made now, can you help us fix the mistake? Kuffour is gone, dumb dumb!

  • Remove Indenity Clause 11 years ago

    All the money in Ghana has been used to pay for judgement debts so that these politricksians can get kick backs.

  • OH GHFUO, WHY SO PRIMITIVE? 11 years ago

    WHY IS EVERYTHING ADMINISTERED BY THE GOVT IN SHAMBLES? NO COULTURE OF MAINTENANCE IN GH. PRIVATIZE THESE HOSPITALS N SELL THEM TO GHFUO BUSINESS PPL, NOT FOREIGNERS.