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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 bedrooms from the USA over problems of import duties.
1 Osei Kufuor alleged in the 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 prepare to receive the equipment but obtained the shock of their life when he has been asked to pay in full all of the duties covering the consignment.
Thinking about the cost he would incur, he or she subsequently diverted the monetary gift to neighbouring West Africa country, Nigeria, where the stated hospital beds were removed 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 provides forced some hospitals in order to suspend referrals from other wellness facilities, which in some cases possess led to the death associated with patients.
Abandoned health services, lack of medicines and systemic corruption have equally already been bemoaned.
