The celebrated heart surgeon and founder of the National Cardiothoracic Center, Professor Frimpong-Boateng has thrown his weight behind Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital’s decision to increase the price of dialysis which backfired after public uproar. According to him, the inputs needed for dialysis are very expensive and without any increase or subsidy, it cannot be sustained. Even […]
The Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) has announced that a proposed price adjustment for renal dialysis services has not yet been approved by the management of the hospital. A notice by the hospital went viral on social media earlier in the week, indicating that the cost of renal dialysis had been increased from GHS¢380 to GHS¢765.42. […]
A Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Director of the National Cardiothoracic Centre at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Professor Mark Tettey, has advised men who suffer from sexual weakness after taking antihypertensive drugs to consult their doctors for other medications instead of abandoning treatment altogether. Prof. Tettey said hypertension as a condition affected sexual function, hence […]
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, 11th August 2020, cut the sod for the construction and equipping of a twelve (12) storey four hundred (400) bed Maternity and Gynaecological Centre, and a two (2) storey one hundred and one (101) bed Urology and Nephrology Centre at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. […]
Two staff of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, have tested positive for Coronavirus. The two are a nurse and a doctor who work at the Department of Medicine and Department of Child Health respectively. The two are currently being taken care of in the hospital and are responding to treatment. Staff are therefore entreated to remain calm […]
The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has purchased 200 beds to help eliminate the “no bed syndrome” facing the facility. Speaking to Citi News, the board chairman of the facility, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye said the beds were acquired for the emergency ward. “We bought about 200 beds and also put in place a proper efficient bed […]
Ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) strongman and Editor-in-Chief of the Statesman Newspaper, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has adopted a young boy who accidentally drank caustic soda and had to undergo a life-saving surgery at the Korlebu Teaching Hospital. This was after he paid the medical bills for the surgery which has since been described by medical […]
The Chief Executive Officer of McDan Group of Companies, Dr. Daniel McKorley together with the Founder of Think-tank Danquah Institute (DI), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko have gone to the rescue of a young boy who nearly lost his life after accidentally drinking caustic soda, thinking it was water. The duo paid for the surgery of the […]
Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu has given a firm assurance that the dilapidated maternity and surgical blocks of the Korle-bu Teaching Hospital will be rehabilitated soon. According to him, funds have already been sourced for the rehabilitation of the two blocks adding that the terms of the funding are before the Finance Minister and […]
President Akufo Addo has donated his November salary of 25,000.00 cedis to the Korlenu Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Fund as part of his contribution to resourcing the Fund to assist Ghanaians who may require plastic surgery. The President made the donation when he commissioned the National Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Burns Centre of the Korle Bu […]
