Chief Executive Officer of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Daniel Asare, has revealed that most of the staff at the hospital have had to be moved to other hospitals to assist with the fight against coronavirus.

He said, majority of these workers belong to the anesthetic and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the health facility.

Speaking in an interview with GhanaWeb’s Naa Oyoe Quartey, Dr Daniel Asare said, “The restrictions also put a lot of pressure on the human resource we have. Currently, in Korle-Bu, most of our emergency staff are manning most of the hospitals with COVID-19 patients. So if you go to Ga East, we have an anesthetic and critical care nurses. If you go to University of Ghana Medical Center, Korle-Bu critical care nurses and doctors with intensive care are there.”

According to him, although it was necessary, the challenge has mounted pressure on the remaining frontline workers at the Korle-Bu hospital.

Dr. Asare further stated that the situation has led to the hospital reducing admission of some patients by one-third. Critical cases he emphasized, have however been the exception.



“We have to scale down and cases that we were doing were solely emergencies and later to urgent cases. So attendance at Korle-Bu and most hospitals have gone down considerably by one-third. He explained that, “When you used to go to the patient ward and you were seeing saying 1500 a day, now we barely 200 or 300.”