Information reaching DAILY GUIDE indicates that doctors at the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) have withdrawn anaesthesia services due to expired anaesthesia drugs being supplied to the facility.
In a letter dated February 13, 2017 and signed by 27 doctors which was copied to the chief anaesthesia at the Tamale Teaching Hospital, they (doctors) stated that they would lay down their tools with immediate effect until they are supplied with unexpired drugs for efficient delivery of anaesthesia.
Meanwhile, a Coalition For Change In Government Institutions, a pressure group in the Northern Region, in collaboration with a group calling itself Forum For Accountable Leadership, has jointly called for the immediate removal of the management of the Tamale Teaching Hospital.
According to these groups, the management has failed to take full responsibilities to effectively run the Tamale Teaching Hospital.
The groups disclosed that the facility’s anaesthetic department has withdrawn their services due to lack of up-to-date anaesthetic drugs.
They claimed that all efforts to get management replace the expired drugs proved futile. That, they said, is because the management of the facility is incompetent and clueless of their duties.
Addressing the media in Tamale, they revealed that the hospital introduced illegal levies which are taken from clients and their relatives.
These charges include GH¢22 paid by women who deliver successfully before they can see their babies, GH¢200 paid by those who go in for surgery and GH¢10 paid after a patient sees a clinician at the theatre.
For these reasons, the groups want the removal of the chief executive officer, the human resource manager and other top corrupt officials of the facility immediately.
A member of the group, Mohammed Issah, told DAILY GUIDE that the incompetence and heartless by management has led to the loss of many innocent lives in the hospital.
According to him, an investigation should be conducted among the top management of the facility, specifically Dr Prosper Akanbong, CEO; Hameed Abdulai, Director of Pharmacy; Dr Adam Abass, Medical Director, and Mohammed Misbaw, Director of Human Resource.
He also called for the overall staff audit to get perpetrators and their collaborators to book for the effective running of the facility.
The group, however, gave management a one week ultimatum to vacate the hospital or they would be compelled to picket at the hospital and proceed to court.
 FROM Eric Kombat, Tamale