KATH Accident & Emergency Centre Temporarily Halts New Admissions- Management
The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has announced that its Accident and Emergency Centre is overwhelmed and will not admit new emergency cases for the next 24 hours.
In a statement signed by the Head of Public Affairs, Mr Kwame Frimpong, and released in Kumasi today, management said the A&E Centre is currently beyond capacity.
The facility, designed for 37 beds, now has 61 patients on admission across its Orange, Yellow and Red critical wards, with 34 more patients waiting in the queue.
To protect the lives of critically ill patients, the hospital said it must temporarily halt further admissions so staff can clear the backlog within the next day before taking in new cases.
The public has been urged to seek care at peripheral hospitals in the Ashanti Region until the situation improves in a day or two.
The hospital’s management added that it is working with the Ashanti Regional Health Directorate to ensure other facilities in the region can handle emergency cases during this period.
KATH assured that neonatal, paediatric and obstetric emergency services are not affected by the temporary suspension.
“The current situation is being periodically reviewed as our emergency physician specialists and other medical staff are doing their best to manage the surge in cases at the A&E Centre. New admissions will be allowed as soon as things get under control,” the statement added.
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