The Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) has announced the resumption of emergency services.
The Tamale Teaching Hospital doctors had earlier suspended emergency and OPD services.
According to a press release the doctors are demanding an apology from Health Minister, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh and Tamale North MP, Alhassan Suhuyini.
On Tuesday, the Doctors’ Association of Tamale Teaching Hospital (DATTH) announced that its members would no longer offer services at the General OPD, Antenatal Clinic, Specialist Clinic, and Paediatrics OPD.
This comes after a delegation led by Zangbalun Naa Dr. Yakubu II, Chief of the Zangbalun Traditional Area urged the Doctors of the Tamale Teaching Hospital to consider the lives that will be lost if they continue their strike action.
In a meeting with both the hospital’s management and representatives of the Doctors Association of Tamale Teaching Hospital (DATTH), Zangbalun Naa Dr. Yakubu II delivered the Yaa Naa message.
He stated, “As a neutral facilitator, will convey your concerns to the minister and engage him to take the necessary steps to address your grievances. We implore you to consider the lives and hang in the balance.
“We urge you in the interim to find a way to ensure the continuity of emergency service. We’re willing to facilitate a meeting with your representatives and the minister to discuss the way forward.”
Zangbalun Naa Dr Yakubu II appealed, “I want to appeal to colleagues that, as we are here, if there is any difficulty with our subsistence here, the ultimate place we will go to is his royal Highness, and if he is here, we have nothing to do than to accord this delegation the highest of respect, so we plead that we should all do well to take to heart the word they have for us”.
After the meeting, Tamale Teaching Hospital announced that emergency services had been restored.
A statement on the hospital’s official Facebook page read, “A powerful delegation from the King of Dagbon, N-dan Ya-Naa has engaged leadership and the Doctors’ Association of TTH. The delegation conveyed a word from the King to the striking doctors. The intervention of the King successfully got the doctors to resume emergency services”.
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