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Renal patients at Korle Bu vow to picket over uncleared consumables at Tema Port
The Renal Patients Association at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has expressed frustration over the government's delayed response in clearing essential dialysis consumables stuck at...
Korle Bu secures 30 new dialysis machines
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has procured 30 additional dialysis machines for the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.
The new machines, which have their own consumables...
Korle Bu dialysis centre to begin full operations next week
The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) has assured the dialysis centre will resume full operations next week.
In a press release, management said it has...
Korle Bu dialysis unit closure leaves patients in crisis
The Korle Bu Dialysis Unit has been closed for almost two weeks, leaving patients in urgent need of care with no choice but to...
Six health unions oppose extension of Korle Bu CEO’s tenure
Six unions have petitioned the Health Ministry against an extension of Dr. Opoku Ware Ampomah's tenure as Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of Korle Bu Teaching...
Korle Bu Allied Health Professionals to suspend outpatient services amid management dispute
The Korle Bu Chapter of the Federation of Allied Health Professionals will suspend outpatient services at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital starting Friday, August 2,...
Korle Bu Allied Health Professionals to suspend outpatient services over governance dispute
The Korle Bu Chapter of the Federation of Allied Health Professionals has announced that it will suspend outpatient services at the Korle Bu Teaching...
Cancer patients face treatment delays at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital
Cancer patients at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital are encountering prolonged delays and suspended appointments as the hospital's sole radiotherapy machine struggles to keep up...
Health crisis looms as Korle Bu’s only cancer treatment machine breaks down; patients stranded
Another health crisis is looming as the only cancer treatment machine at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has broken down, leaving scores of patients...
Sika oo Sika: Four winners support Korle Bu, Ridge Hospital and Osu Children’s Home
Four lucky winners of the Multimedia Ghana Limited’s ongoing listener reward initiative, Sika oo Sika have supported the Korle Bu and Greater Accra Regional...
Ghana records first Wilson’s disease at Korle Bu
The Child Health Department of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) has recorded a rare case of Wilson’s Disease in a 13-year-old boy.
The condition,...
Korle Bu clarifies reports on cancellation of surgeries
The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has dismissed reports that surgeries which were scheduled for Monday, 29 April 2024, were cancelled due to power outage...
Gas explosion accounts for 35% burns cases at Korle Bu
Thirty-five per cent of burns cases on admission to Korle Bu Teaching Hospital are caused by gas explosions, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of...
Wendy Shay blesses Korle Bu Teaching Hospital on her birthday
Award-winning Ghanaian songstress, Wendy Shay celebrated her birthday on Tuesday, February 20.
On this special day, she decided to extend a helping hand to the...
Korle Bu Renal Unit faces imminent shutdown
The renal dialysis unit of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) is warning of a possible shutdown due to the facility's inability to raise money...
Korle Bu sets records straight on prison inmate’s escape
The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has denied reports suggesting that a Chinese prison inmate escaped while undergoing treatment at the facility.
The inmate was...
Chinese inmate at Nsawam escapes while receiving treatment at Korle Bu Hospital
A prison inmate, said to be a Chinese national has escaped while receiving treatment at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.
The inmate, who...
People will die if Korle Bu increases cost of dialysis – Renal patients
The Renal Patients Association of Ghana has issued a warning about loss of lives if Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) increases the cost of...
Korle Bu Renal Dialysis Unit accumulates GH¢2m debt for kidney treatment
The Renal Dialysis Unit of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has yet again accumulated an amount of GH₵2 million in debt for treating kidney...
Korle Bu Teaching Hospital to hand over morgue to AMA
The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) in Accra is to hand over the hospital’s mortuary to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly to be used as...
Korle Bu upgrades 30 wards as part of centenary celebration
Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) in Accra will renovate over 30 wards of the hospital as part of its centenary celebration this year.
The exercise,...
Govt has credited ₵4 million debt payment to our account – Korle Bu CEO
Chief Executive Officer of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital Dr. Opoku Ware Ampomah says government has disbursed money meant to settle the hospital’s GH¢4...
Korle Bu Renal Unit: Why is Parliament not questioning Health Minister on debt non-payment?...
Pharmacist and Democracy and Development Fellow at CDD-Ghana, Kwame Sarpong Asiedu, has called on Parliament to haul the Minister of Health before the house...
Jospong Group to support dialysis patients at Korle Bu with over GH¢500,000
As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility activities in thanksgiving to God for his unconditional mercies to the group for the year 2023, the...
How is Korle Bu unable to operate? – Muntala quizzes
A member of the Health Committee of Parliament, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak says the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital's (KBTH) inability to run and sustain the...
Opening Korle Bu renal unit without sustainable financing recipe for disaster – Beyuo
Medical practitioner, Dr. Titus Beyuo says the reopening of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital’s Renal Unit will lead to further complications in the near...
Korle Bu reopens Renal Unit
The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) has reopened the Renal Unit for the treatment of kidney and other related diseases to outpatients.
The reopening last...
Former Korle Bu CEO brings relief to patients
Former Chief Executive Officer of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Felix Anyah has made a generous donation of GH¢100,000 to settle the bills...
Korle Bu Renal Dialysis Unit still closed despite Health Minister’s directive
The Korle Bu Renal Dialysis Unit remains closed to outpatients despite a directive from the Ministry of Health for it to be opened immediately.
Sources...
Korle Bu performs successful bladder repair surgery
A team of urologists at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, led by the Head of the Department of Surgery, Professor J. E. Mensah, has...
Joy FM’s Philip Nai & Friends to fete children with cancer at Korle Bu
On December 24, 2023, Philip Nai and Friends will for the fourth time, embark on its annual charity agenda.
This year, the programme will take...
Prof Frimpong-Boateng speaks on kidney dialysis price hike at Korle Bu
Former cardiothoracic surgeon at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has thrown his weight behind the yet-to-be-approved new cost for dialysis proposed by...
Govt to settle Korle Bu hospital’s 4million debt
Chief Executive Officer of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Opoku Ware Ampomah says the government has indicated its willingness to settle the four...
Good news for dialysis patients who paid unapproved fees at Korle Bu
Dialysis patients who paid the unapproved fee increment by the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital will receive free treatment on their next visit.
Ranking Member...
Dialysis crisis: 14 died at Korle Bu over supply shortage between May and September...
The Renal Patients Association of Ghana, comprised of individuals with kidney conditions, has disclosed that fourteen of its members passed away between May and...
New dialysis charges illegal – Health Ministry to Korle Bu
The Ministry of Health has taken a swipe at the management of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for increasing dialysis fees without proper recourse to...
World Heart Day: Korle Bu records over 16,000 heart cases, 21 deaths in 2022
The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital’s (KBTH) Cardiothoracic Centre recorded 16,946 outpatient department (OPD) attendances with varied heart diseases and 21 deaths from heart failure...
Korle Bu probes leakage of proposed hike in cost of dialysis
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Opoku Ware Ampomah, says internal investigations have been launched into how a...
Korle Bu Community Chapel wins 2023 Awana Olympic Games [Photos]
The 2023 edition of the Awana Olympic Games was held on August 12, 2023.
The event took place at the Presbyterian Boys Secondary School, Presec-Legon,...
Korle Bu nurses name two babies abandoned at facility 2 months ago
Health workers at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital have decided to give names to two male babies who were abandoned at the facility two...