Rats, cockroaches annex Doctors' flat at Komfo Anokye hostel

Mice and cockroaches are said to have taken over the sleeping quarters of 25 junior doctors of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi.

The Daily Guide says the doctors who virtually live in squalor at the abandoned Kumasi City Hotel, are said to be demoralised by the free rein that the rodents (mice) and the crawling insects (cockroaches) seem to have in running to and fro around their beddings and other belongings.

The ownership of the City Hotel building is currently the subject of litigation in two High Courts, one in Accra and the other in Kumasi.

The doctors have therefore made an appeal to the Ministry of Health to come to their aid either by relocating them or fumigating the hotel building to make the place habitable for them and also to save them from being afflicted by a bubonic plague-a disease caused by rodents.

The Daily Guide says it discovered the plight of the junior doctors when it paid a reconnaissance visit to Kumasi at the weekend where it also found that doctors of the hospital face acute accommodation problems.