Health News of Wednesday, 5 January 2022<\/p>\n
Source: <\/strong>kasapafmonline.com<\/p>\n 2022-01-05<\/p>\n The nationwide strike action by anaesthetists, though in its early days, is beginning to have a dire impact on health delivery at the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital in the Western Region.<\/p>\n The hospital, which has four operation theatres manned by seven anaesthetists, has had everything coming to a standstill due to the industrial action by the Ghana Association of Certified Registered Anaesthetists (GACRA).<\/p>\n Upon a visit to the hospital by Empire News on Tuesday, January 4, three days after the strike took effect; it was realized that no surgery was underway.<\/p>\n Speaking to Empire News, the obviously disturbed Medical Director of the facility, Dr Joseph Kojo Tambil, lamented that the strike action is having a toll on the execution of their mandate as the only referral health facility in the region.<\/p>\n According to Dr Tambil, the facility conducts between 5 to 20 surgeries daily but owing to the strike action, they have to refer the cases to other facilities in the country.<\/p>\n He revealed that even with the seven anaesthetists, the facility is challenged with the number of cases they have to deal with.<\/p>\n He is appealing to the factions, the Anaesthetists and the Ministry of Health to come to an agreement in order to prevent the impact of the strike action on the facility.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, as a mitigating measure to manage the situation, the hospital intends to call back one of its Doctor Anaesthetists, who is currently on leave with the other indisposed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Health News of Wednesday, 5 January 2022 Source: kasapafmonline.com 2022-01-05 Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital The nationwide strike action by anaesthetists, though in its early days, is beginning to have a dire impact on health delivery at the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital in the Western Region. The hospital, which has four operation theatres manned by seven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":735899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Effia](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/32359623.295.jpg\" "\\"Effia")
Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n