DAILY GUIDE has gathered that the Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital (TQMH) in the Akuapem North Municipality of the Eastern Region which used to be one of the best hospitals in the country is gradually collapsing due to the deplorable state of its various facilities.
The hospital which was named in honour of the man who brought cocoa to Ghana, Tetteh Quarshie, can neither boast of modern equipment nor having good roads.
DAILY GUIDE has gathered that the link road to the doctors’ bungalows is in ruins as the 600-metre road has deteriorated to near unmotorable condition.
The situation is leading to impairment in the efficient administration of healthcare at the hospital.
Doctors and hospital administration staff have complained umpteenth time to the appropriate authorities, with no response.
Yet, the condition of the road keeps worsening as authorities have failed to heed to their calls for fixing of the road.
The alternative road to the bungalows from the hospital is irritatingly longer and also not in too good a condition.
The 150-bed hospital located strategically within the enclave of the Akuapem North Municipality serves an adjoining district, Akuapem South, as a district hospital.
TQMH also serves over 16 senior high schools located on the ridge and around. The hospital medical practitioners, therefore, need to have access road to the hospital from their residences to be able to attend to emergency cases promptly.
The assembly member of the electoral area, Michael Odoi Kyene, appealed to the Urban Roads Authority (URA) to, as a matter of urgency, come to the aid of the hospital.
Following these negative developments, the assembly man has called on government and all stakeholders to marshal resources to rescue the hospital.
He described the hospital as an abandoned facility, despite its track record of helping to keep and improve health conditions of many Ghanaians.
Mr Odoi Kyene, however, also appealed to the management of COCOBOD which established the hospital over 40 years ago and later handed it over to the government, to immediately take steps to refurbish it.
 From Daniel Bampoe, Akuapem-Mampong