A Neurosurgeon at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital Dr Hadi Abdallah has recounted the experience when he failed to secure a bed in his own ward when he fell and sick and needed urgent treatment at the neurosurgery unit of the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Abdallah said he had to be taken to a nurse\u2019s office to be treated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLast week I was sick and you\u2019ll be surprised that there was no bed for me. Last month I had an emergency while at work, I needed to be admitted to my own ward. You won\u2019t believe it, there was no space for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey had to admit me into the nurses, the BDMS, her office, she had a bed there. That\u2019s where they kept me,\u201d he told Francis Abban on Morning Starr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Abdallah further narrated the ordeal his department has been facing saying \u201cthe neurosurgery ward is always full. And over the years, if you go to the accident center more than 50 percent of the beds there are being occupied by neurosurgery cases.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFrom brain injuries to spinal tumors. Some are waiting to have surgery done. If you go to most of the surgical wards we have few of our patients occupying the beds there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He went on \u201cwe work even up to the polyclinics because patients are being brought in and there\u2019s no bed space for them. There\u2019s nowhere for them to go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNeurosurgery is a highly specialized area but also because of our accident cases and the rising cases in brain tumor that we have and spinal deformities and all the problems that arise from the degeneration of the spine, we are choked. And so its almost like a funnel where you have so many cases at the bigger end of the funnel and then towards the apex, that is the ICU, that is the theater.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He maintained \u201cso, once you do a case, instead of letting the patient stay there for a while once the patient looks okay, you have to move the patient, else there are other patients whose lives are at risk. If you don\u2019t do the case, they are going to die.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Abbdalah said originally, the ICU is supposed to have six beds and then High Dependency Units \u201cbut we have an HDU which is empty because we don\u2019t have critical care nurses. The ones we had have been sent to Trinidad and Togabo for economic reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also stated that he was less perturbed about the backlash he may receive for highlighting the problems the hospital was facing \u201cpeople don\u2019t know what happened to me in the past. I almost lost my life in the early 2,000\u2019s trying to make things better. I\u2019ve been through a lot and I\u2019m still talking. Because if I don\u2019t talk it could be me. I\u2019ve had reasons to believe that we have to keep talking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Source: Starrfm.com.gh<\/p>\n\n\n\n