Ghanaian Times

The Minister of Health (MOH), Mr. Samuel Nuamah Donkoh has directed the management of Ridge Hospital in Accra to release immediately all medical equipment meant for use in the wards. According to a Times front page story headlined "MOH orders hospital to utilize equipment" the minister visited the Ridge Hospital and issued the directives following a report that medical equipment for the hospital's extension works had been exposed to the weather and could be damaged. Mr. Nuamah Donkor, has asked that a meeting, between the Architectural Engineering Services Company (AESC), consultants to the hospital project and Hospital Engineering Limited, the contractors, should be convened to get them to agree on a date for the completion of the project at the hospital. During his rounds at the hospital, the report states, Mr. Donkor noticed that some wards were congested, lacked adequate beds, bedside lockers and trolleys. He is said to have ordered the hospital authorities to release the items to the wards for use since they are included in the hospitals delivery. The Times says the minister stressed that it was important for the project to be completed on schedule so that the hospital would operate at full capacity as a regional hospital to take some of the workload off the Korle-bu Teaching hospital. GRi.