Ghanaian parliamentarians have asked Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman Manu to appear before parliament next week to answer questions about the five-month closure of the renal unit at the publicly funded Korle-Bu hospital in the capital, Accra.
The country’s largest treatment centre for patients suffering kidney disease shut because of budgetary issues and was unable to pay for the everyday needs of those needing its services.
According to the head of a patients’ group, Kofi Baffour Ahenkorah nineteen people have died since the facility was closed, and the situation has left most of his members stranded because they cannot afford the treatment at private hospitals.
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