The Ghanaian Democrat in its lead story, reports that the Minister of Health Mr Samuel Nuamah Donkor, has stated emphatically that all the "necessary paper work and documentation have been completed for the military and police to take over the running of the Ridge Hospital, the La and Mamprobi Polyclinics.
He is said to have declared that the ministry will go ahead without fear or favour at ensuring the smooth running of these three hospitals by the security agencies. "For this reason, there is no logic for any individual or group of individuals to demand the withdrawal of the National Emergency Hospitals policy by the Ministry of Health", he is quoted as saying.
The paper says Mr Nuamah Donkor, who disclosed this during an interview, noted that over the years, the ministry and indeed the government has observed with a "state of melancholy and a demoralising episode" in which many Ghanaian patients are left to their fate and ultimately died, partly due to industrial actions and counter boycotts by health workers in Ghana. "Many babies, pregnant women, nursing mothers, the aged and several patients under emergency observations lost their precious lives because doctors and nurses wanted fatter pay packets", he is quoted as saying.