No Surgery was Rescheduled Due To Power Outage- Korle Bu
The Management of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has dispelled media reports that planned surgeries were put off due to power outage at the facility.
“This is to correct a misleading report in sections of the media that claims that surgeries in Korle Bu were cancelled as a result of power outage on Monday, April 29, 2024 and the standby generator was not in use.”
In a statement, the hospital said all planned surgeries were undertaken with the exception of two despite confronting some challenges with power supply to the hospital.
It recounted, “Work started on all elective cases in our theatres and the operations proceeded as scheduled. However, we experienced low current for about 45 minutes. In the face of the low current that emanated from a problem at one of the substations of ECG, our functional standby generators came on stream and provided power for work to continue until the problem was resolved.”
It stated that the two cases which were rescheduled were in no way connected to power supply.
“Two cases at the Department of Surgery were returned to the ward at the end of the day on account of limited space in the recovery ward and not because of power outage. The rest of the other theatres spread across the hospital all carried out their surgeries as scheduled.”
It further used the opportunity to assure patients and the general public of their premium health care services.
Source: opemsuo.com /Hajara Fuseini
