Former Director-General of the Ghana Health Service and former Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, has blamed systemic failures within Ghana’s healthcare sector for the death of engineer Charles Amissah.
Speaking on Newsfile on JoyNews monitored by MyNewsGh, he argued that the tragedy went beyond individual mistakes by doctors and nurses.
A government-appointed committee investigating the case concluded that the 29-year-old Promasidor Ghana Limited engineer died from medical neglect after being turned away by the Police Hospital, Ridge Hospital and Korle Bu Teaching Hospital despite arriving alive at all three facilities.
Reacting to the findings, the former Ghana Health Service Director-General insisted that the country must stop normalising what has become known as “no bed syndrome.”
“There should be nothing like no bed syndrome. It shouldn’t exist in any part of our health system,” he stated.
According to him, overcrowding at emergency wards often reflects wider failures in the healthcare structure, including delays in transferring stabilised patients out of emergency units.
“It is a whole system failure. The system killed him, not only the young health professionals involved,” he said.
Source: MyNewsGh.com
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