Health News of Wednesday, 2 May 2012

Source: radioxyzonline

KATH Junior Doctors want incompetent board dissolved

The Junior Doctors of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) have reiterated their call on the health minister to change the leadership of the hospital.

President of the Junior Doctors Association, Dr. Lawrence Osei Tutu told XYZ News, that the Doctors have lost confidence in the board and management of the hospital.

According to him, board and management lack the urgency to take and implement decisions which tend to affect operations at the hospital.

Recently, the junior doctors embarked on an indefinite strike over poor working conditions at the hospital.

The call for change in leadership was also captured in the petitions made in the letter to the sector minister and all parties involved.

Dr. Osei Tutu said they expect government to act swiftly to save the hospital.

There are emergency situations and you require urgent attention and the pace at which solutions are provided are not effective at all so the house decided that the board and management should go.

This is something that we have already said and for more than five weeks now nothing has happened.**