Korle-Bu Renal Unit To Be Re-opened

Reports say The Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra has re-opened the renal unit that will allow kidney dialysis to be undertaken. The critically important unit had been closed over what the hospital authorities said was its choking debt in excess of 4 million Ghana cedis.

Following that, the hospital proposed a 100 percent increase in the cost of dialysis.

This caused public uproar but Korle-Bu said the proposal was only the realistic cost of service to be provided due to the hiked prices of kidney management imports.

When President Akufo Addo intervened, he urged key stakeholders in the health sector to discuss the issue as an emergency and come up with proposals on how sufferers of kidney disease could be assisted in paying their medical bills.

The political opposition however seized the moment to rehash an earlier pronouncement on the issue which was a manifesto pledge to create a kidney and cancer fund.

Monitoring Joy TV, the Ghana Report gathered that some kidney patients died during the temporal closure of the kidney dialysis unit of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.

Ghana has been grappling with growing cases of kidney failure attributed mainly to uncontrolled mining that toxically pollute the environment which is a source of several human applications.