Story: Michael Sarpong
Mfum, Sunyani
Sunyani Regional Hospital
Specialists posted to the Brong Ahafo Regional Hospital, Sunyani are
refusing postings to the facility because of accommodation problems.
The Brong Ahafo Regional Hospital is in dire need of accommodation because
of the failure of the contractors who built the hospital, International
Hospital Group to construct a 200 residential accommodation as part of the
contract for the staff of the hospital.
Mr. Asare Bediako, Administrator of the hospital in an interview in
Sunyani said the hospital is also losing many specialists to
other hospitals in the country because of inadequate accommodation.
“When these specialists
are posted to the hospital and they realize that the accommodation meant for
them is a rent apartment somewhere in town, they would tell you they are going
for their things but will never return by the time you realize they are at
Kumasi or Accra, this is really affecting the hospital” he noted.
Mr. Bediako revealed that the running of the hospital has become
difficult because of the absence of adequate accommodation for staff.
“No accommodation unit was built in addition to this ultra modern
hospital that you see. Though the International Hospital Group,
a United Kingdom building construction firm who constructed the 300-bed ultra
modern capacity hospital were
supposed to have build a 200-unit accommodation but not a single unit was
built, information we have shows that an amount was paid to the contractors to
build the accommodation unit for the staff. We have to rent hotels in the
Sunyani Municipality, to be used as accommodation for staff. The owners of
these hotels, are businesspersons and have converted their hotels into
accommodation for our staffs, this is expensive, averagely we pay GH 500
averagely on a room monthly,” Mr. Bediako disclosed.
The situation is currently having a toll on the Internally Generated
Fund (IGF) of the hospital. Funds
meant for the replacement of old equipment, purchase of drugs and maintenance
of facilities are being diverted to rent accommodation for staff, thus draining
the finances of the hospital.He said several appeals
made to the appropriate authorities to bring the International Hospital Group
to book, but all their efforts have yielded any good results.
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