The management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has described as false claim that the youngman who was arrested at the hospital on Monday 4th September 2023 and handed over to the police for posing as a doctor had attended to patients at the referral facility.
A statement issued by the hospital and signed by Kwame Frimpong, Public Relations Director indicated that, the young man was accosted by the Director of Nursing Services on the walkway behind the A&E Centre after she became suspicious with his responses to her questions on his identity and purpose at the hospital.
“The suspect was not found in any of the service points at the hospital but accosted at an open space and could therefore, not be said to have attended to patients as being circulated,” the statement explained.
Providing further details on the incident, the statement said the DNS of the hospital was on her usual rounds when she met the suspect with a backpack and a stethoscope behind the A&E Centre of the hospital.
He also had the name ‘Dr. Williams Cyril Cohen’ written on the scrub dress he was wearing.
It said when the DNS questioned him about who he was and what he was doing at the hospital, the suspect responded that he was only passing through the hospital to give something to somebody and quickly started move away.
The statement said the DNS, who had become suspicious, raised alarm and the young man who was by then running away was chased, arrested and handed over to the police.
The statement added that the hospital has a team-based system that oversees both Inpatient care and OPD services and that once one is not a member of these closely knit teams; one cannot assess or attend to patients at the various designated service points at the hospital.
“Again, the hospital has for some time now computerized its clinical operations and all patient care services are done through the Electronic Medical Records System accessible to only accredited members of staff using their unique passwords,” it stressed.
The Hospital Managment emphasized that no diagnosis, reviews and issuing of prescriptions can, therefore, be done for patients by a non- member of staff and therefore, the claim that the suspect had attended to, and administered medications to patients before his arrest was false.
Source: Kasapafmonline.com/Isaac Justice Bediako
