The Tamale Teaching Hospital is in serious need of renovation to return the facility to its former glory.
The Hospital is calling on the government to come to their aid with regards to poor conditions of services rendered to patients who visit the hospital on a daily basis.
The Chairman of Parliament’s Health Committee, Dr Kwabena Twum Nuamah in an interview disclosed the hospital is forced to spend GH₵ 100.000.00 on oxygen tanks for sick patients due to the malfunctioning of oxygen plants that were required to produce mass oxygen at lower cost for those requiring medical care.
“They spend GH₵ 100,000 on oxygen. They had oxygen plants. The sad thing is the oxygen plant has malfunctioned. So the old method of buying oxygen tanks has been resorted to. Every month they spend such amount. If the plants were working, lots of funds would have been saved. Now we need to look for money to rebuild the plants…” he explained to Accra-based Okay FM.
He further revealed that, there exists massive roof leakages where the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) devices are kept and the gynecological ward he believes need to be urgently refurbished hence he cannot fathom how this could happen just after two years of construction.
“A lot of equipment needs to be changed. The gynecological ward was is in a bad state. People can even attain sickness there. In the room where the MRI devices are kept, the roof is leaking. In just two years how can this happen. We have to be serious as a country. Otherwise we would spend too much money…” he stressed.
The government, the Berekum East Parliamentarian maintained, will hold contractors in accordance to their liability periods.
He added that, consultants at the helm of the contractors to secure projects would also be sanctioned if they fail to produce quality services after sealing and signing for governmental projects.
“We have given the contractor the call to fix the roof. In the contracts there are liability periods. But contractors should be liable to be charged. There are consultants who take care of projects. They need to be stretched too because they pay the contractors. There should be a law that will punish consultants if projects are done shabbily to serve as a deterrent to others…”
Dr Kwabena Twum-Nuamah further urged the citizenry to maintain governmental properties since if left in a deplorable state will turn around to affect citizens.
He said, “If you are given the mandate to do the work and you don’t maintain it, it will affect the nation. It’s our country. No one can fix it for us. How can MRI centre have a roofing leakage? No one would allow this continue if it were their personal house. We bring the problem to ourselves…”
