DIRECTOR General of the Ghana Health Service (GES), Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare says the completion of the abandoned maternity block at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital featured in the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) 2016 manifesto.
According to him, the reduction of Child and Mother Mortality rate in Ghana had been paramount to the NPP hence their resolve to complete all uncompleted health projects which the one at KATH is part.
Assuring the Ghanaian public that the abandoned maternity block would soon be completed; the new GHS Director General said that the government was committed to stemming the senseless deaths occurring at the premier hospital in the Ashanti Region.
Dr. Nsiah Asare was reacting to a documentary by Joy News’ Seth Kwame Boateng on the high maternal and child mortality at the KATH which serves about five regions in the country.
The documentary captioned “Next to die” featured the harrowing experience of pregnant women who w go to the Teaching Hospital to deliver.
Also the transmission of diseases from one baby to another due to the congestion at the current maternity block leading to several deaths.
Dr. Nsiah Asare who once served as the Chief Executive Officer bemoaned the lack of commitment on the part of successive governments to completing the project that could have stemmed the deaths of pregnant mothers and kids at the mother and baby unit (MBU).
The new GHS Director-General noted that it was unacceptable for the hospital to still record as high as ten deaths a day at the Mother and Baby Unit.
This, he noted could be avoided for the creation of space since many of the deaths were occurring as a result of the unavailability of beds and space for mothers to properly give birth.
Monies appropriated wrongly to people in the past in the name of Judgment Debt could have been used to complete the facility at KATH.
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