It’s wicked closing Korle-Bu renal unit but spend millions flying private jets – Dr. Apaak 

The Member of Parliament for Builsa South, Dr. Clement Apaak has described as wicked how the government could spend huge sums of money on other things and leave the Korle-Bu renal unit closed to outpatients.

This comes on the back of Members of Parliament from both sides of the house having made a passionate appeal to the government to ensure the reopening of the Renal Unit of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.

The outpatients department of the unit has been shut for more than six months now as a result of lack of funding.

Commenting on the development, the Builsa South lawmaker expressed worry why the government could allow Bank of Ghana print billions and still cannot open the renal unit.

“A government can get BOG to print billions, spend millions on a cathedral, spend millions to fly a President in luxury jets, and whose appointees have millions of dollars/cedis in rooms can’t fund a 4M debt for a renal unit to reopen to save lives of dialysis patients? USELESS and wicked!” Dr. Apaak stated in a tweet.

However, the minority through its spokesperson on health Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has been on a crusade to get the unit reopened to the public for some time now.

In a statement in Parliament Thursday, the Juaboso MP prayed on the 2nd deputy speaker Andrew Asiamah to summon the sector minister Kwaku Agyeman Manu over the matter.

“It is imperative that the renal unit outpatient department is promptly opened and the approved GHC380 is reinstated.

“Mr. Speaker, therefore call on this house with your guidance to call the Minister responsible for health to come to this house and clarify why the outpatient department of the renal unit of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital remain closed and what measures are put in place to ensure that the facility is reopened as soon as possible,” Mr. Akandoh stated.

“Mr. Speaker, I plead with this house to rally behind me in calling on the government to consider absolving the full cost of dialysis for Ghanaians patients or at the very least absolve whatever the difference is beyond GHC380. This will help alleviate the financial stress on patients,” he added.

Source: Today.com.gh