THE Concerned Citizens of Tamale, a pressure group, has reiterated their appeal to the government to, as matter urgency, rehabilitate the Tamale Teaching Hospital to befit its status as a referral centre in the northern sector.
They noted that the continuous neglect of the hospital was seriously affecting effective health care in the area.
‘‘At the moment, patients on the third and fourth floors of the main tower block have been relocated to temporary structures while work on the abandoned floors are yet to be completed,’’ the association intimated.
The president of the association, Mr Alhassan Basharu Daballi, who made the appeal in an interview with the Daily Graphic in Tamale, added that, ‘‘since the hospital was constructed about 31 years ago, there has not been any major rehabilitation work on the facility, thus leaving in its wake serious deterioration and gloom.’’
He further observed that, ‘‘several appeals the people of Tamale have made to past governments to rehabilitate the hospital have gone unheeded.’’
Medical students of the University of Development Studies (UDS) in Tamale are undergoing their clinical training at the medical schools of the University of Ghana and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Accra and Kumasi respectively at a great cost to the cash-strapped UDS.
Apart from the inadequate health personnel and poor infrastructure, most of the equipment are obsolete, with the rest broken down.
‘‘Worst of all, the hospital has no standby generator, thereby creating serious health hazards in case of power outage,’’ the president stated.
He said, ‘‘even though there are some minor works in progress on the ground floor and some parts of the hospital, this could, however, be likened to drawing water from the sea with a spoon.’’
According to Mr Daballi, past and present government officials had visited the hospital, yet nothing had been done about the major rehabilitation works.
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