The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Dr. Otchere Addai Mensah, has expressed his dissatisfaction with the eviction of doctors from their official bungalows at Danyame following the sale of the area to a private developer.
The situation arose when doctors at KATH in the Ashanti Region threatened to go on an indefinite strike starting on Wednesday, March 13, after being instructed to vacate their bungalows.
In an interview with Nana Yaw Mensah Joel on the Oyerepa Breakfast show, the CEO of KATH addressed the doctors’ concerns. He explained that they were initially informed that the staff at the Danyame residence would need to relocate to different apartments since the area had been sold to a private developer.
“We were told initially that there would be a need for our staff to move out of those residences because that area has been sold to a private developer. But they had to rent a different apartment for all our staff who were initially occupying those apartments so that when they complete other apartments they can relocate them back” he said.
However, reports indicate that doctors who are occupying those apartments are being harassed with constant orders to move out of their Danyame residences in Kumasi.
Dr Addai Mensah noted that the only that matters to them now is to get a place for his staff that is closer to the hospital to make their work easy and to avert all forms of inconveniences.
Meanwhile, he asked that his staff be given the appropriate slots once the apartments are complete and are being given out.
Source: Oyerepafmonline.com /Freduah Agyemang Derrick
