This year’s rainfall is notoriously exposing Ghana’s infrastructure deficiencies with several buildings left in shambles following repeated rains in early June.
A viral social media video captured a heartbreaking scene at the Nsawam Government Hospital. Nurses were seen making frantic efforts to relocate patients from sick beds to prevent them from being drenched by a leaking roof during a rainstorm.
In the video, the female ward was leaking profusely with water tripping in while nurses pushed beds with patients to safety.
Sources disclosed that the video was taken a long time ago, however, the recent rain in the country has brought to light some challenges in Ghana’s infrastructure development.
Not long ago The Ghana Medical Association warned of dire health challenges in the years ahead should the government fail to substantially invest in the country’s health care system.
It was established that aside from the low doctor-to-patient ratio of 1000 patients to a doctor being inadequate, available facilities for emergency medical services would prevent many avoidable deaths.
The question that is begging for an answer is upon all the money borrowed by the government, where does it go to?
In 2018, Ghana was rated as one of the countries in the world with the worst emergency healthcare system.
The report placed Ghana in the category of countries whose local emergency and dental care, as well as administrative barriers in health, were unimpressive, negatively affecting the overall quality of health care delivery. This is a clear indication that the government has failed woefully in the sector.
Well-meaning Ghanaians are now appealing to the government to find pragmatic measures to address such predicaments before they blow out of proportion.