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Regional news for Monday, September 21, 2020
Source: GNA
2020-09-21
The hospital was empty with no nurse or midwife on duty
The nationwide strike declared by the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) and its allied Associations in public health facilities has intensified at the Upper East Regional Hospital in Bolgatanga.
The normally busy regional hospital’s Outpatient Department (OPD) was very quiet when the Ghana News Agency (GNA) visited the facility to determine the impact of the strike.
All the nurses ‘and midwives’ stations in the hospital were empty with no nurses or midwives on duty, while relatives of discharged patients huddled in “room three,” where patient details were entered before they were released. discharged.
The OPD and the main emergency rooms were without nurses to attend to the patients, however, the doctors were in critical units such as the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the maternity and children rooms, busily attending to the patients.
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) was closed with no patients in the two-bed capacity unit.
Dr. Gillian Bogee, director of the NICU in an interview with the GNA revealed that there were 13 babies with three new admissions and one premature baby.
“Two are arriving with bad conditions that we cannot make them back down. Currently I am the only one who works in the unit now, the nurses are on strike and it is very difficult ”.
He explained that with the paperless system that is practiced in the hospital, “Once I see the babies, the nurses administer the medications, do the vital signs and all that.”
He said three of the babies were seriously ill and on oxygen and, as the sole doctor, “I don’t think this can continue.”
The relative of a patient of the OPD hospital, Mrs. Janet Adongo, told the GNA that her brother was admitted yesterday, and said that apart from the care that the brother received yesterday, he had not been treated since the morning.
“Patients are gradually dying. The suffering of the patients I have seen thus far is disheartening. We call on the government to have mercy on the patients of this hospital and solve their problems with the nurses before things get out of control, “he said.
At War Memorial Hospital in Kassena-Nankana Township, Dr. Eric Wedam, the Acting Medical Superintendent, said they did not admit patients except in very critical emergencies.
He said that with such cases, “we will stabilize and refer to any of the private facilities in Bolgatanga, Sumbrungu or Paga. For those in the neighborhoods, we have been able to reduce their number to just three. “
He said that all the patients in the various wards, especially the children, men and women, were handled in the emergency room, except for the pregnant women who were still in the maternity ward.
“We currently only have four pregnant women that we are trying to monitor to see if they can have a successful vaginal delivery, but if it turns out that they may need an operation, we will refer them to private facilities in Paga or Bolgatanga.”
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