"Why send critical health care nurses to Trinidad and Tobago If not for economic gains" - Dr. Abdullah Hadi
12th May 2021
A Specialist Neurosurgeon at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Abdullah Hadi Mohammed has questioned why the government will send critical care nurses to Trinidad and Tobago when the country lack them.
The neurosurgeon says the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital Department of Neurosurgery lack critical care nurses at its Intensive Care Unit(ICU).
Dr Hadi Mohammed was speaking in an interview on Starr FM's Morning Show on Wednesday, about how they did all they could to save 13 year old Michael Kofi Asiamah but the decayed health system and at Korle Bu militated against them.
The 13 year old boy had a brain tumor removed at the facility but later died after going into relapse somewhere last month.
Speaking in an interview the specialist complained that the hospital lacks a common defibrillator which is spread in every corner in Monaco when his wife travels.
He also complained that the Neurosurgery Department has only one working ICU bed instead of the 12 due to the lack of critical care nurses.
"Why do you send critical health care nurses who are even in short supply in Ghana to Trinidad and Tobago If not for economic gains what else?"he queried.
The Specialist added that ten years ago a state of the art Neurosurgery department would have cost $30,000 but believes now it will cost somewhere in the region of $50million.