There are just about 3,400 hospital beds in Accra, serving the health needs of the over 5 million population.
These beds are found in the seven (7) major hospitals located in the capital.
Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital has the most number of beds, 2,000, followed by the Greater Accra Regional Hospital (Ridge), which has 420 bed. The Trust Hospital has 86 beds and like the abovementioned hospitals, have the equipment and specialists for highly specialised medical care.
The question about the number of beds in major hospitals in the country has come to the fore following the ‘avoidable’ death of a 70-year-old man who spent almost 2 hours in a car being driven by his family in an attempt to find a hospital to attend to his health emergency.
All seven (7) hospitals they visited refused to attend to him because they said there were no available beds.
The man reportedly died in his car at the LEKMA Hospital after they had visited other major hospitals including the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital and the Police Hospital.
Source: citinewsroom.com
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I can state that the total beds at korle bu surgical medical emergency and the accident center is not up to 200 beds. I am talking about EMERGENCY. IT IS TIME THE GOVERNMENT BUILD 5 ( FIVE ) 50 BED EMERGENY CENTER FOR ACCRA .ONE AT WEST of ACCRA ,SOUTH of ACCRA ,NORTH of ACCRA ,CENTRAL of ACCRA AND EAST OF ACCRA. ONCE THE PATIENT IS STABILIZED SPENDING MAXIMUM 1 DAY IN THE UNIT TO FREE SPACE ,THE PATIENT IS SENT TO OTHER HEALTH FACILITY FOR FURTHER MANAGEMENT.
We as a country should focus on the bread and butter issues affecting us health, education, services, infrastructure, water, food security , infrastructural development, unemployment etc instead of launching Mobile Phones, New Car mdels.
hmm. I hope your numbers are correct
Don't present it as if all the 5million people are going to fall sick at the same time. Reportage still an issues. Get the stats well!