Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng , immediate past Chief Executive Officers (CEO) of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has expressed deep concern about certain developments in the hospital, and says the situation makes his heart bleed for the biggest hospital in West Africa.
Expressing his views on recent happenings to THE SUN over the waning fortunes of the Korle Bu Hospital, the former CEO said some of the developments at the hospital makes him very sad.
He noted that when he was in office he did a lot of good things for the hospital which he strongly believed his predecessor, Dr. Holdbrook-Smith expected from him, so is he also expecting from the one who took over from him deliver .
He noted that the position is a prestigious one as such when given the post, one has to try to give it his best shot so that after exiting, he could be remembered for precisely the litany of good things he brought to bear.
He therefore prayed that the new Board led by a businessman Mr. Eddy Annan, would be able to put its feet down to instill discipline, while pushing the hospital back on the right pedestal.
He noted that even during the last state of the Nation Address, the late President John Mills acknowledged that Korle Bu, which was a microcosm of Ghana was in a deplorable state. “If that is so the big question now is ‘Na who cause am’, he asked .
According to Prof. Frimpong Boateng, it was very sad that the Hospital that employed some of the best human resources around was today in a deplorable state and this undoubtedly calls for so much worry.
“I do not want to talk about individuals but when you go to Korle Bu at the Guggisburg avenue, you will see a whole lot of medical set-ups such as laboratories and CT Scans, owned by the staff of the hospital. Interestingly while most of the Korle-Bu medical facilities are not working ,the ones across the street owned by the same hospital staff are working to perfection,” he observed.
He therefore noted that the major problems confronting the hospital was not human capital nor the buildings or the facilities at the hospital, rather, how to manage the human capital to give off their best and remain loyal to the state. THE SUN
Source: GhanaWeb
