Kumasi South Hospital Opposes Former KATH CEO Posting
The staff of Kumasi South Hospital have openly opposed the posting of the former Chief Executive of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Dr Oheneba Owusu-Danso to the hospital as a Consultant Surgeon.
In an interview, the Vice Chairman of the Health Services Workers Union at the hospital, Joshua Lawrence Nii Adu Arday, said the opposition was due to his age.
“We heard the news and we saw it on social media, about Dr Oheneba Owusu Danso who they are bringing to Kumasi South Hospital…, if that is what is the case then I think that we are not ready for him. Because he is a plastic surgeon, what is he coming to do here?
“There are people here who are capable of handling affairs here. We are not saying that we are preventing the government from increasing us [our numbers] or adding up to us, but for God’s sake, he’s 65 years old. What is he coming to do?” he was quoted as saying in an interview with Citinews.
A letter from the Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma Aboagye informed the Regional Director of the GHS the retiree is being posted to the regional hospital on a two-year post-service contract.
He is being assigned to the hospital as a consultant (plastic, reconstructive and hand) surgeon.
In May, the Asante Youth Association (AYA) also kicked against the “re-employment” of Dr Danso as a surgeon at KATH by the Minister for Health, Hon Kwaku Agyemang-Manu.
The Association in a press statement cited a “reliable” but unidentified source for the information and noted the move was “questionable,” “reckless, untimely, and needless”.
