Hundreds of patients were on Thursday stranded at the Tamale Teaching Hospital where health workers are on strike.
Despite the arrest and subsequent release of some members of the NPP Kandahar Boys group, the striking health professionals are yet to rescind their decision.
The situation has compelled families of some patients on admission to move them out of the referral health facility.
The stranded patients in a Citi News interview pleaded with the striking health professionals to return to work.
They condemned the unlawful act which led to the sit down strike.
Meanwhile, Spokesman of the group calling itself Concerned NPP Youth Coalition, Baba Alhassan, is in police custody.
He was picked up on Thursday morning and he is assisting the police in their investigations.
Baba Alhassan earlier on Citi FM’s Eyewitness News on Monday said the group acted to save the hospital.
“If things are not going on and we think we should just sit aloof and allow things to go wrong, I don’t think it will go on well for all us. If Tamale teaching hospital is what we can boast of in the Northern region, if things are not going on well there is a need for us come out and then raise the alarm. We will be monitoring; we have eagle eyes at the hospital.”
In a related development, some opinion leaders in the Northern Region are calling for forensic audit of the hospital’s financial records.
They include chiefs, the clergy, academicians and heads of civil society organizations engaged in conflict resolution and peace management.
They petitioned the Northern Regional Coordinating Council and implored government to overhaul the hospital’s administrative structures and possibly transfer some sectional heads.
The Eminent Leaders issued a communiqué after a two-day deliberation on the chasing out of the incumbent TTH, Chief Executive Officer, Dr. David Zaawumya Kolbila by some pro youth groups of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Source : citinewsroom.com
