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A US-based Ghanaian has shared the chilling story of how Ghana’s Ministry of Health did not secure free hospital bed frames from the USA over problems of import duties.
One particular Osei Kufuor alleged inside a tweet Tuesday that he acquired the privilege to pick the warehouse full of new private hospitals beds from the USA in order to donate to any hospital within Africa.
He claimed which he contacted the Health Ministry to set up to receive the equipment but obtained the shock of their life when he has been asked to pay in full most duties covering the consignment.
Taking into consideration the cost he would incur, he or she subsequently diverted the monetary gift to neighbouring West Africa country, Nigeria, where the mentioned hospital beds were eliminated without charges.
GHPage. possuindo cannot immediately confirm this particular claims and it is not clear whenever this happen.
No mattress syndrome
Ghana’s healthcare strategy is beset with several issues along the delivery chain.
The problem of lack of beds offers forced some hospitals in order to suspend referrals from other wellness facilities, which in some cases have got led to the death associated with patients.
Abandoned health amenities, lack of medicines and systemic corruption have equally already been bemoaned.
