{"id":700294,"date":"2019-09-06T16:35:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/06\/kbu-dna-gadget-not-functioning\/"},"modified":"2019-09-06T16:35:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:35:57","slug":"kbu-dna-gadget-not-functioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/06\/kbu-dna-gadget-not-functioning\/","title":{"rendered":"K\u2019Bu DNA Gadget Not Functioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Persons<br \/>\nseeking DNA analysis at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra have to look<br \/>\nelsewhere following the non-functioning of the gadget at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Those<br \/>\nwho show up at the referral facility are in the light of the situation directed<br \/>\nto alternative facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nfacility is largely patronized by persons seeking paternity details but with<br \/>\nthe non-functioning of the gadget, turn to the Forensic and Science Unit of the<br \/>\nCriminal Investigations Department under the Ghana Police Service and other<br \/>\nprivate health facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Chief<br \/>\nBiomedical Scientist at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Augustine Segoe, one of the<br \/>\nbrains behind the establishment of the laboratory, who spoke on an Accra based<br \/>\nmedia outlet and monitored by <strong><em>DAILY GUIDE,<\/em><\/strong>has expressed worry about the situation.<\/p>\n<p>He<br \/>\nhas therefore called for support to make the facility functional.<\/p>\n<p>For<br \/>\nhis part, Seth Agyemang Deputy Chief Biomedical Scientist at Korle-Bu Teaching<br \/>\nHospital noted that the facility was unable to sustain the use of the machine<br \/>\ndue to reasons which are being handled at the management level.<\/p>\n<p>According<br \/>\nto him, the lab has been left with the only option of running basic testing for<br \/>\nthe facility although the facility is supposed to do specialized testing and<br \/>\nnot routine testing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKorle-Bu<br \/>\nis big and a tertiary hospital so we are supposed to be doing specialist<br \/>\ntesting, especially when you have staff well trained in molecular diagnosis and<br \/>\nother specialist testing. It is like getting trained in school and not having<br \/>\nthe needed machines to work with.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo<br \/>\nto me, for Korle-Bu to maintain its level, we are supposed to be doing<br \/>\nspecialized testing, and this is the least testing other hospitals in other<br \/>\ncountries would do which we don\u2019t have. We are supposed to be a referral centre<br \/>\nwhere other health facilities have to refer to Korle-Bu so it\u2019s very critical<br \/>\nthat we do specialized testing and not routine testing,\u201d he indicated.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,<br \/>\ninformation gathered by <strong><em>DAILY GUIDE<\/em><\/strong> indicates that the DNA<br \/>\ntesting machine was reportedly taken away by the owner after management of the<br \/>\nhospital failed to fulfill their side of the contract signed with the supplier.<\/p>\n<p>Until<br \/>\n2010, paternity test in Ghana and the West African sub-Region for that matter<br \/>\nwas done outside the country.\u00a0 But with<br \/>\nthe establishment of the DNA testing centre at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital,<br \/>\nGhana became the first country in the West African sub-Region to have the<br \/>\ncapacity to do DNA Tests.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly, the facility stopped doing DNA testing in 2014 and shut down after it had worked for about 3 years, leaving the facility in a deplorable state.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Vincent Kubi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persons seeking DNA analysis at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra have to look elsewhere following the non-functioning of the gadget at the facility. 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