'No bed syndrome': Korle-Bu deploys doctors to handle emergency cases

The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital is rolling out a medical outreach programme to deploy medical doctors to some health faculties to help address the "no bed" syndrome that has hit hospitals in the country. 

As part of that move, the hospital is arranging to procure standby ambulances and shuttles that will transport patients to health facilities for prompt attention. 

The Chairman of the reconstituted board of the Hospital Dr. Benard Okoe Boye who announced this at the inauguration of the board in Accra yesterday (July 13) said arrangements have already been made to deploy trained medical protocol officers to facilitate healthcare delivery in the new paradigm. 

He said about twenty of these protocol officers will be trained over a two-week period to help provide vital information to patients. 

They will have key information on the doctors, nurses, number of beds that are available at any point in time. If the patients have to be transported to any other health facility, the protocol officers are expected to assist.

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