KATH Medical Doctors Abandon Consulting Rooms Over Faulty Cancer Diagnosis Equipment [Video]

• Medical doctors at the Oncology Department of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital have abandoned their consulting rooms over faulty cancer diagnosis equipment
• They say the non-operation of the machine is impeding their work as doctors and reducing the quality of service delivery
• They have urged managment to fix the machine immediately

Medical doctors at the Oncology Department of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) have declared a strike over delays in fixing a critical equipment needed for service delivery.

The device, a Linear Accelerator System, has been malfunctioning since October 2023.

The Linear Accelerator System is used in radiotherapy services to diagnose and treat cancer cases.

However, following its faultiness, doctors complain they have been having difficulties efficiently attending to their patients and detecting cancer cells early on.

Management of KATH responding to the doctors’ strike explained that the said machine has been fixed.

They noted that …