Former Upper East Regional Minister drops bombshell on Tamale Teaching Hospital management

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  • Moor 7 months ago

    Ghanaian doctors and nurses are murderers they r very mean to patients. Doctors and nursed r the dangerous people in Ghana. I everyday pray to God to pay Ghanaian doctors and nurses with sickness and miseries. This punishment ...
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  • NAMA 7 months ago

    NMMMMMMMMM

  • ARISTON 7 months ago

    Waoooww...!!!! They agreed by consensus to return the millions of cedis GIFTED TO THEM. And what was their reason...???? The price of the machine had been quoted in dollars!

    Please, nobody should ask me if we are talking ...
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  • Akua Nsiah 7 months ago

    Ghanaweb, your writing is simply TOO BAD! Repetition all throughout. Do just try to fill up space? You read the entire article is the headline repeated over and over again. HORRIBLE WRITING.

  • Anti Ghana NPP 7 months ago

    What do you expect when you give pen and paper to idiots? They are just so bad one wonders what educational level they have.

  • Kwasi 7 months ago

    I agree with you. Too much repetition. And what's the meaning of KSK?

  • Aponkye shuaa 7 months ago

    Whether repetition is only to stress on the matter. So there is nothing wrong with the writing. Shut up

  • Shimeria 7 months ago

    @ HARISTON.
    Haven't you figured out the modus operandi yet?
    These deadbeats prefer to divert patients to their private clinic to extract more money from them.
    How can these cynics make more money if there's a machine at TT ...
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  • Pato 7 months ago

    Now I get the meaning from your explanation.So they watch for the collapse of the equipment and direct the patients to their private clinics.That is wickedness.

  • jesus 7 months ago

    It is unfortunate the education of most Ghanaian Officials and Executives are geared towards ensuring 'govt facilities don't work'! Part of circumventing this poisonous culture of theirs is directly securing the equipment for ...
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  • Esi 7 months ago

    You intoxicate normal Africans with Western education and they become nothing more than idiots. Just look around you. After 60 or more years of independence, we cannot even guarantee basic necessities like water, electricity, ...
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  • Sankuwa 7 months ago

    true sentiment

  • James 7 months ago

    GHANAWEB AND JANDAM...no no no...you people are crazy there...You guys can collapse a nation... Bad Bad write up...The Headline write up is totally different from the Story... Shame on you guys.

  • J.C.A 7 months ago

    Your parents that are murderers. Stupid comments

  • Kofi 7 months ago

    You are the fool who think Dr and nurses should be on their knees to serve you when same staff have 100 plus patient to see in a day. Come to the villages and same Dr and nurse are taking care of your ppl with no gloves and r ...
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  • Give Us Barabas 7 months ago

    This nonsense must stop. Resetting Agenda champions should shut up and provide this machine to TTH. Mongtari's salary and allowances alone for 1 year can procure and install this all-important machine.

    Cost in Euros:
    Here ...
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  • Kofi 7 months ago

    So, why didn't you bring this last year? Is it because you were doing politics with this issue? Please, sit somewhere and serious people manage all this inefficiencies and corruptions within the system.

  • JACK TORONTO 7 months ago

    The head, which is the executive ( JUBILEE HOUSE) was totten, so nobody cares under the previous administration. It is time the civil service must be brought to order. Some of them takes in FAT salaries, but produces zero. M ...
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  • Amecole 7 months ago

    The lady is not “doing politics” but rather pointing out a problem (among many) with the management at TTH, from her vantage point. All she is saying is that the problem with TTH management is longstanding.

    Let us lear ...
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  • Koio 7 months ago

    As a member of parliament at the time, she wielded some power to cause changes at the facility but she kept quiet and did nothing knowing very well of the issues with the management

  • elton 7 months ago

    Africa paa d33! So a CEO taking fat salary and allowances in a life saving institution will sit unconcerned on the availability of these essential medical services until he is fired before his colleaques will come out with th ...
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  • Eazy 7 months ago

    Sir say it again and you will see people backing them all over. I pity blackman

  • Aboagye 7 months ago

    Then people are criticizing that CEO has been sacked. Let’s demand accountability

  • Ghanaianpoliticians 7 months ago

    The rot started with the previous NPP administration. No wonder they are whinging like beat dogs about the CEO's dismissal.

  • Honest 7 months ago

    Despite the absence of all the things the Doctors are complaining about, some of the hospital staff are putting up huge storey buildings in Tamale. How do they come by the money? The people of Tamale should have organised a p ...
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  • Sure 7 months ago

    These things they are doing is to allow the private hospitals where they do locum to get more business. The people of Tamale must rise up and government must sack them en-mass. They should all re-apply

  • K. Kusi 7 months ago

    THE THING WITH TAMALE TEACHING HOSPITAL, LIKE ANY OTHER PUBLIC FACILITY IN THAT REGION IS THAT THERE IS TOO MUCH INTERFERANCE FROM OCAL AUTHORITIES AND SELF-SEEKING INDIVIDUALS WHO JUST WANT TO CONTROL THE HOSPITAL MERELY BEC ...
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  • Esi 7 months ago

    @ K. Kusi. My brother congratulations for this sweet write-up which should be forwarded not only to the Minister of Health but also to the President. You hit the nail right smack on the head.

    As for the Minister we must sy ...
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  • Muha 7 months ago

    Wicked

  • This is not politics, TTH like other Hospitals are killing people 7 months ago

    We must stop politics and change all the management staff of our regional and teaching hospital in Ghana. The rots are toooooooo much

  • Yaw 7 months ago

    The Doctors must rescind their decision. When two elephants fight the grass suffers. The loser in this fight us the patient and not the Minister in Accra. This is so basic for the Doctors to know. Have they forgotten the "Hy ...
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  • NART 7 months ago

    MOST OF OUR DOCTORS AND NURSES ARE POLITICIANS.
    THEY DON'T CARE

  • Observer 7 months ago

    You see the behaviour of this bloated GMA members. What will be their response to this incompetence. GMA needs to be temporarily banned because it is being used to promote incompetence to the detriment of lives being needless ...
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  • Agondrie S 7 months ago

    That's why some of them travelled outside the country seeking greener pastures and are given the job of mortuary attendants and borla CEO'S.

  • Osei 7 months ago

    Poor management. If the money is in Cedi, why not keep it in the hospital bank account and later solicit financial and other support on how to get it in Dollar equivalent to buy the mammogram?

    Madam, you were also an influ ...
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  • Citizen 7 months ago

    Do something you mean? So that the GMA can go on strike as they are showing? The employer should not complain otherwise they will go on strike. Stuuupid GMA. Ye gyegye won so; Oye bone aa yenka (we are pampering them, if they ...
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  • Newtons 7 months ago

    She was Upper East Regional Minister, whilst TTH is in the Northern region. So she could have exerted little or no influence.

  • Training 7 months ago

    All the healthcare workers in Ghana need patient care training. It is very essential to health delivery.

  • Holy Sinner 7 months ago

    AND IDIOTS OF THE DAY CALL THIS WITCH HUNTING..... NPP IS A SHAME, HAS COMPLETELY COLLAPSED THIS COUNTRY with the help of their dental formula waterholes of a President. This is coming from one of your own. Come out and chall ...
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  • Kwam 7 months ago

    In fact l don't want to hear some of these wicked or irresponsible stories, if a whole Regional Minister can't use her influence to acquire this machine whiles his government is in power, how can his government justify the us ...
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  • Elder 7 months ago

    That is the nature of the problem facing Ghana with GMA. They should continue with the strike till thy kingdom come. In fact, they should vacate their bungalows and not expect any salary this month. Stuupid

  • Gborlahn 7 months ago

    @Kwam. Did you read the article? And if you did, what influence are you talking about again?

  • Sam 7 months ago

    So the whole mgt must go and new one brought in. They are too corrupt

  • Lexis 7 months ago

    So doctors still go on strike? I thought they chickened out of Organized Labours Galamsey strike citing Lives must be Saved. That is Ghana for you. Hypocrisy is ten a penny

  • Gaskia 7 months ago

    Boss, you're a wise man. You'll live long

  • Gaskia 7 months ago

    @Lexis

  • Obed 7 months ago

    A begger has no choice but TTH has a choice

  • Rasheed 7 months ago

    Hmmm,TTH!The problem of TTH is deeply rooted in tribal bigotry where a deliberate agenda exists where persons from other areas are deemed unqualified but not incompetent to occupy certain management positions.Any keen observ ...
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  • Slim 7 months ago

    This is how it is in every public institution in Ghana—stupidity!

    Youth of Ghana, demand answers! Thankfully, you've a very powerful weapon—Social Media.

    Expose every rot in the system even with this John Mahama's ...
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  • Yaw 7 months ago

    There is even no water at the hospital. A Teaching hospital? What do they use their IGF for? The Minister was right in firing.

  • Ghanaba 7 months ago

    Useless former minister that is how u politicians are empty and attention seeker shut up ur mouth
    As a minister u should have taken up the mammography issues as a project by seeking for the equipment to be installed and comm ...
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  • Politician 7 months ago

    Former minister is a noble citizen. One of the few, wisest statesmen among NPP. She must be commended for speaking the truth. You want to tell me that a doctor at a private hospital can dare talk back to his CEO and demand an ...
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  • the Villager 7 months ago

    The former minister ought to praised instead. She was for Upper East but knowing that Hamid was Tamale boy used her politiccal connection to ask him to help TTH. Kudus to you former minister Abayage

  • Boat. 7 months ago

    Corruption nkoaa . People care much about their pockets than their jobs.

  • Napo 7 months ago

    GMA leadership is full of npp die hard

  • PK 7 months ago

    That hospital is a big mess. I have worked there before

  • Esi 7 months ago

    Nobody is interested in the fact that you may have worked there at the hospital before. What we need to know are the problems that make the place " a big mess".

  • Po 7 months ago

    You politicians........it's always about your party. After manipulating the management...you still come back to blame. You sabotage them for the sake of your party
    People don't think anyone in this country. People don't ...
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  • Obiba AA 7 months ago

    Hmmm Ghanaians
    We have a very long way to go
    Management of institutions is poor
    Only corruption
    That it means, the cedis could not be changed to dollars to buy the machine
    Shame

  • Nato 7 months ago

    Yeah is true they have bad management issues. They killed my wife in 2020. Wicked and demonic doctors. Always running after instead of saving lives. All thy care Is to live big and drive luxury carers. They deliberately bre ...
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  • Murderers. 7 months ago

    Now that they have advice themselves to kill more because the CEO is sack ,then we must be very careful because this Doctors and nurses are ready to kill more innocent people.Their main target is the poor that don't visit the ...
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  • Pope Francis Levy 7 months ago

    I hope afenyo monkey is reading this post. NPP the party of incompetent imbeciles!!!

  • Pelicles. 7 months ago

    Was Ghana a paradise nation under NDC? Issues like this should not be politicized because it involves Ghanaians and not people from other country meaning our mindset are too dirty. Who seeks help at our hospitals, Martians or ...
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  • Daavi 7 months ago

    So what prevented NPA from purchasing the machine directly for the hospital, instead of transferring the funds to them?

  • Ama 7 months ago

    The story does not add up. There is more to it. Hamid wanted 10 percent of the money, and they refused; hence the return of the money. Lets hear the other side of the story. TTH, like most institutions in the northern region, ...
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  • Bongo 7 months ago

    I can't see the head and tail of what this former minister is about. She is saying it was ok to return the sponsorship because it was in cedis!!??!!?? The doctors didn't want the machine at the hospital. That was going to spo ...
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  • Nicholas Osman 7 months ago

    I wonder why , Do our politicians has Love and respects for Ghanaians who voted them to power? Being Ndc /Npp they all knew were to buy latest Toyota land cruisers when they come to power for their luxurious transport but t ...
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  • Prudhomme - Forget about doctors managing hospitals 7 months ago

    I am not sure why Ghana always appoints doctors to manage hospitals. Most of the world's first-class health facilities are managed by management professionals. Also, you will find doctors who manage hospitals usually have man ...
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  • Wal, 7 months ago

    GREED, CORRUPTION, AND TRIBALISM ARE THE BANES OF TTH.Check their over invoicing. referring patients to private hospitals, referring patients to private labs for a fee.
    A few of the doctors are doing well, including Dr. Ayi ...
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  • King deed 7 months ago

    And you as a regional minister you couldnt use your influence to get them fired or transferred? Yet your people will be blaming Mahama for chasing your people away!!! Mmoaaa nkoa! Pepeniii no yɛ nipa!!

  • Donatus 7 months ago

    What was the point collecting the money in cedi denomination only to return it because it was cedis as if you did not know?

  • Donatus 7 months ago

    Tell them sorry, the payment must be in dollars so kindly give us dollars.

  • Amata 7 months ago

    What was then government doing and you were going around begging. Is NPA an NGO?

  • ADU BOATENG 7 months ago

    What do you expect to see if Akuffo Addo can collapse the TOR for his cronies in the petroleum sector to import petroleum products with huge dollars every month instead of the TOR producing fuel on its own to save the Cedi?

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  • Hmmm, thought the same while watching where on earth will someone who has collapse d won't be left on the floor with clothes loosen and airway,breathing and circulation be assessed but walk the person rather to where l didn't know. 7 months ago

    How???
    Moor rather pray for God to change the bad nurses and Drs and their families instead of saying this wicked prayer.
    There are some brilliant and fantastic nurses and Drs out there too who you can never, ever fault.
    ...
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  • Aponkye shuaa 7 months ago

    Ti's is jotmpolitically motivated. This is patriotism. The doctors have to go back to work. If they will not send for Cuba doctors they will readily replace them.

  • Aponkye shuaa 7 months ago

    Ti's is jotmpolitically motivated. This is patriotism. The doctors have to go back to work. If they will not send for Cuba doctors they will readily replace them.

  • Clynns 7 months ago

    Most useless region and people in Ghana