Staff of Koforidua Regional Hospital to wear name tags

Koforidua, April 28, GNA - The Medical Superintendent of the Koforidua Regional Hospital, Dr Daniel Asare, has directed all staff of the hospital to wear name tags to help track down people engaged in illegal collection of fees.

Dr Asare gave the directive when he spoke at the first quarter review meeting of the hospital. He outlined a programme aimed at transforming the Hospital into an excellent medical care in the next two years. Dr Asare said it was unfair for the name and image of the large number of hard working staff to be dragged in the mud by a small group of greedy people. Dr Asare proposed the establishment of an advisory board of the hospital with strong participation of interest groups in the Koforidua Municipality as a way of getting the local people to participate in the management of the hospital. He said there was a programme to acquire new equipment and to replace old ones.

Dr Asare said he had engaged some architects to advice on what could be done to reduce the heat at the Out Patients Department during the afternoons and that the rehabilitation and expansion of the hospital morgue would soon start.

He called for improvement in record keeping and the filling of cards to reduce the time patients spent when they attend the hospital. Dr Asare appealed to the Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service to post more nurses and midwives to the hospital to support the programme which the hospital want to pursue. The Regional Director of Health Services, Dr Eramus Agongo, called for the rethinking of the human resource management plan of the hospital to ensure that older and sick staff of the hospital were posted to departments and given schedules that would make them more effective.